World leaders open COP31 talks amid widening climate action gap

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The summit is taking place as a new assessment warns that countries’ emissions-reduction promises are falling increasingly short of what is needed. Talks are expected to focus on expanding electricity’s share in energy use and advancing the transition away from fossil fuels, but the absence of leaders from the United States, China and India has raised questions about how much progress can be achieved. The outcome could shape international climate policy and energy decisions at a time of intensifying floods, heat waves and other climate-related disasters.[1][2]

Sources: Associated Press, Reuters