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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announces a much-delayed pledge to meet 2050 net-zero emissions target ahead of a landmark UN climate summit. Widely seen as a climate laggard, Australia is one of the world's largest coal and gas exporters and its conservative government has resisted climate action for most of its eight-year term. S
Australia's new prime minister Anthony Albanese says he has written to the United Nations to raise the country's 2030 emissions reduction target to 43 percent.
China and the United States on Wednesday (November 10) vowed to work together to accelerate climate action this decade, separately announcing a surprise pact on global warming, which is already causing disasters across the world. The joint declaration came as the crunch COP26 summit in Glasgow entered its pivotal final days, with negotiators wrestling over ways to limit global warming to 1.5-2 degrees Celsius compared to preindustrial levels.
India will become carbon-neutral by the year 2070, the country's Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Monday at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. India is the last of the world's major carbon polluters to announce a net-zero target, with China saying it would reach that goal in 2060, and the US and the EU aiming for 2050.
Young people march in a Fridays for Future demonstration in Stockholm ahead of the COP26 summit in Glasgow. IMAGES
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