COP26: World leaders under pressure to take action

• UN Secretary-General urged the nations to develop technology to ensure the average temperature doesn’t go above 1.5 degrees Celsius

• G-20 summit also had no conclusive plans to halt countries financing energy generated from coal

World leaders have gathered at Glasgow on Monday for a two-week-long high-stakes United Nations’ COP26 climate summit to discuss ways to address the warming planet. Scientists expressed concern that nations are not doing enough to limit greenhouse gas emissions which in turn is raising the average global temperatures.

As many countries, including the U.S., are falling short on emissions-reduction targets and struggling to enact domestic climate-change legislation, leaders around the world will face pressure in the next 48 hours to turn political pledges to tackle climate change into concrete actions.