One month out from the COP26 climate summit, world leaders are under unprecedented pressure to decarbonize their economies and chart humanity’s path away from catastrophic global warming.
But in the midst of a pandemic still raging in parts of the globe, and with countries already battered by climate-driven calamities pleading for help — and money — the negotiations in Glasgow are likely to be fraught.
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