and more hostile climate, so there s real pressure for the talks in glasgow to get somewhere. david shukman, bbc news. no global plan to tackle climate change can work without the cooperation of china and the united states. china is responsible for more than a quarter of the world s total emissions of greenhouse gases. next on the list is the us. so let s talk about the us and china. our north america editor jon sopel is in rome where that g20 was meeting but first to beijing, and our correspondent there, stephen mcdonell. the chinese president isn t coming to glasgow, and there s no clarity on how china will meet its emissions targets? xijinping hasn t been xi jinping hasn t been anywhere xijinping hasn t been anywhere in nearly two years. as far as we can tell the chinese leader has not
some of the developing countries are resisting phasing out coal and limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees. there s tension between some western allies over america s chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan, and between the us and france over a submarine deal. and some g20 leaders won t even be here in person. so will the summitjust end up as another talking shop? no leader can afford to fiddle while rome burns. to give you a sense of how much work there is to be done, a recent climate report by the un found that emissions targets, the aim to achieve net zero carbon emissions by the end of the century, is way off track and there could be a 60% rise by carbon emissions compared to 2010, which would lead to a global temperature rise of 2.7 degrees, way ahead of the 1.5 degrees that they
look again at this and see if that can be resolved. cop26 coming to scotland and yet you have missed emissions targets. what is going wrong? we have the most ambitious climate change targets and we are doing everything we can to do that. what would make a difference to that would be investment in projects such as carbon capture and storage in the north east of scotland, a project on the books, slated since 2014 and the uk government has reneged time and again to spend money on a project such as this which would help with the transition from oil and gas. we would like to hear the chancellor putting money towards that scheme rather than putting it to the back of the queue. rather than putting it to the back of the queue- rather than putting it to the back of the queue. rather than putting it to the back of the cueue. . ~ ., ., ., of the queue. thank you. coverage of the budaet of the queue. thank you. coverage of the budget on of the queue. thank you. coverage of the budget on bbc o