World leaders have delivered a raft of crucial climate commitments at the UN General Assembly this week, with China, the US, and South Africa among countries coming forward with fresh pledges that will fuel hopes the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow in November could yet mark a step change in global decarbonisation efforts.
Yesterday China’s President Xi Jinping used his address to the Assembly to confirm the world’s biggest emitter plans to stop building overseas coal plants, in a move expected to drastically reduce the global pipeline of new coal power plants.
The pledge is hugely significant as China is …
