Boris’s huge COP26 second suffers one other blow as Vladimir Putin confirms he’s snubbing Glasgow summit together with China’s Xi Jinping

  • Boris Johnson is hoping to get local weather change progress on the COP26 summit
  • Vladimir Putin has confirmed he won’t be attending the gathering in particular person
  • China’s Xi Jinping can also be not anticipated to come back to the summit in Glasgow 










Boris Johnson’s huge COP26 second suffered one other blow at present as Vladimir Putin confirmed he’s snubbing the summit.

The Kremlin stated the Russian president won’t be attending the gathering in Glasgow on the finish of the month.

It comes after China’s Xi Jinping made clear he isn’t aspiring to journey to the UN occasion, heightening fears that the summit will fail to make vital progress within the combat towards local weather change.

Though each international locations are anticipated to ship delegations, the presence of nationwide leaders is seen as essential so as to add impetus to the method.

Mr Johnson has insisted he’s hoping for a ‘good’ turnout in Glasgow, however pointed to the pandemic as an element.    

The Kremlin said Vladimir Putin (left) will not be attending the gathering in Glasgow at the end of the month. China's Xi Jinping (right) is also not expected to go

The Kremlin stated Vladimir Putin (left) won’t be attending the gathering in Glasgow on the finish of the month. China’s Xi Jinping (proper) can also be not anticipated to go

Boris Johnson has insisted he is hoping for a 'good' turnout in Glasgow, but pointed to the pandemic as a factor

Boris Johnson has insisted he’s hoping for a ‘good’ turnout in Glasgow, however pointed to the pandemic as an element

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated the Covid scenario was stopping Mr Putin from travelling.

‘He can even not fly to Glasgow, sadly,’ the spokesman stated. ‘We have to work out in what format will probably be doable to talk through video convention, at what second

‘The problems that will probably be mentioned in Glasgow proper now type one of many priorities of our international coverage.’ 

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi and Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro have additionally not dedicated to attending. 

Who’s coming to the COP26 summit? 

Even the Queen has been publicly complaining that she doesn’t know who’s coming to the massive UN local weather summit in Glasgow.   

CONFIRMED OR LIKELY

US president Joe Biden

Australian PM Scott Morrison

Israeli PM Naftali Bennett 

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan 

French president Emmanuel Macron 

Italian PM Mario Draghi 

Colombian president Ivan Duque

Swedish PM Stefan Lofven

Swiss President Man Parmelin

South Korean President Moon Jae-in 

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

OUT OR DOUBTFUL 

Chinese language president Xi Jinping

Russian president Vladimir Putin 

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa

Japanese PM Fumio Kishida 

Pope Francis 

US President Joe Biden confirmed solely final week that he will probably be there, and Australian prime minister Scott Morrison is coming regardless of preliminary doubts. 

If China doesn’t decide to new motion, the prospect of preserving world warming to 1.5C may properly be scuppered. The nation is accountable for 27 per cent of worldwide carbon emissions.

Even the Queen has been unable to hide her frustration on the imprecise visitor checklist for COP26. 

Caught on microphone whereas attending the opening of the Welsh parliament in Cardiff final week, the monarch stated: ‘Extraordinary is not it… I have been listening to all about Cop… nonetheless do not know who’s coming… no concept.

‘We solely find out about people who find themselves not coming… It is actually irritating after they discuss, however they do not do.’

Mr Johnson vowed to make Britain the ‘Qatar of hydrogen’ at present as he wooed companies chiefs together with Invoice Gates at a glitzy pre-COP26 summit – urging them to take a position ‘trillions’ in tackling local weather change.

The PM gave a speech and chatted to the Microsoft billionaire on stage on the Science Museum as he requested business leaders to commit funding to decarbonising the world economic system – insisting ‘inexperienced is nice, inexperienced is correct’.

He stated the UK had a duty to behave on slicing emissions as ‘we had been the primary to knit the lethal tea cosy of CO2’ – pointing to the ‘huge bets’ the federal government is making on electrical automobiles and gigafactories for battery manufacturing.

Mr Johnson additionally performed down issues that the looming COP26 summit in Glasgow will probably be a failure, saying he’s hoping for a ‘good turnout’ of world leaders regardless of anticipated snubs from China and Russia.  

He stated there have been $24trillion represented within the room on the Science Museum convention London. 

‘I can deploy billions – with the approval of the Chancellor, clearly – however you on this room, you may deploy trillions,’ he stated.

‘I wish to say to every a kind of {dollars}, you might be very welcome to the UK and you’ve got come to the correct place on the proper time.’

He stated hydrogen could be a big a part of the answer to changing fossil fuels. ‘To drive a digger or a truck or to hurl an enormous passenger airplane down a runway, you want what Jeremy Clarkson used to name ”grunt” – I feel there could also be a technical time period for it – however ”grunt”.

‘Hydrogen gives that grunt, so we’re making huge bets on hydrogen, we’re making bets on photo voltaic and hydro, and, sure – in fact – on nuclear as properly, for our baseload.’  

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