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What happened at the COP 26 summit in Glasgow and why did the climate pledges made fall short of expectations?

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Agreements and commitments, then its going to set the tone for the next two weeks. and its gonna be a problem because john kerry is really in the middle of trying to convince countries to agree to a number of commitments, five of them in particular, maybe about releasing the call, and the methane, and to carbon cutting. and it just feels -- im a little disappointed going into this. and that is not a fun place to be in at the beginning of the. summit >> and i was going to say, you brought up an i...

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Shortly from alok sharma who will be taking on the uk presidency of cop and we will bring you that a speech live along with a number of other key speeches on this opening day. youre watching bbc news. there has been a lot of wet weather across some parts of the country over recent days and we still have some flood warnings in force across parts of wales, northern england, southern scotland as well. so today, we had a bit more rain events are quite a wet and windy day. the rain and living through...

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They have not voiced them publicly but it is boris johnson failed to get an agreement about phasing out coal. less prepared than france when they did cop 21 in 2015, diplomatic muscle behind cop 26 that is needed to get substantial agreement. borisjohnson in terms of product push. they are doing a good job but he is notjohn kerry and the reality is the success of cop 26 will come down to us leadership, the real question is can china bring faster reductions and who will

Memorable one. everyone has to sign on. i helped him with that. and the previous french president, whom hollande asked help with that so it was great to meet with the new president, because hes going to continue with that and just to reassure them in my speech in france, it was a wonderful afternoon. we gave the speeches and it was an enthusiastic crowd and the audience and all that stuff. i wanted to let them know. say look america did not leave the paris accord. c.o.p. 21. we as a country are ...

Creating. because when you say 13 million people a year die because of pollution, theres no reason why we do that. >> i pay close attention to you in the headlines and the social media and i followed your trip to france and it seems like youre meeting with president macron. you really bonded. you must have spoken on this specific issue and the climate accord, the paris accord, that we withdrew from. wheres that issue? >> one of the main reasons why i went over there, they had an event at univers...

They made a deal they would pay. it is hard to believe america is going to renege on a commitment. if they do, i didnt want the people keeping track of all the progress america and other countries are making, i didnt want them to worry about whether or not theyd be funded. i said if the federal government doesnt, bloomberg philanthropies will commit it and other people called me and said, wed like to help, as well. >> a lot of democrats said look, the u.s. is basically giving up leadership on cl...