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Minutes' time. now, a major announcement is expected today at the cop-26 conference in scotland. britain says more than 100 world leaders will commit to ending deforestation by 2030. it accounts for 11% of the world's carbon emissions. part of the biden agenda is combatting climate change. the president is working with world leaders to do just that at the conference. those representing smaller nations are there as well and calling on the developed world to give them resources to really night global warming. the president on the seychelles says countries like his are gasping for survival and ...

Advance and we would really like it to stop now. it is interesting they are doing it now at cop and right at the beginning of cop. one of the other interesting things, isa, is sweetener, there is $20 billion that's been put on the table by some of the richest countries in the world to help those countries stop deforestation and hopefully start reforesting. >> i'm glad you mentioned that, professor. we were here before. didn't we have a similar promise in 2014? we didn't meet that. you think the sweetener could just be the deal that clinches it? >> well, i think, first, the deal in 2014, again,...

The protest action i think is going toe intensify over the course of the week ahead. but these are all people who had gone to a great deal of effort to come here and maintain pressure on world leaders so that the most significant progress is possible over the course of the next two weeks, isa. >> phil black in edinborough, scotland. phil, good to see you. ahead on the show i'll talk to a climate expert about the pledges being made at the cop-26 summit, particularly what phil was talking about, the deforestation. we'll go live to glasgow in 20 minutes or so for that. back in washington, the...

Leaders representing over 85% of the world's forests will commit to ending and reversing deforestation by 2030. now, on monday in his prime minister set 2070 as a target date to reach zero carbon emissions. that came on a day dozens of world leaders spoke about the urgency of the climate crisis. take a listen. >> will we act? will we do what is necessary? will we seize the enormous opportunity before us? or will we condemn future generations to suffer? this is the decade that will determine the answer, this decade. >> enough of killing ourselves with carbon. enough of treating nature like a to...

Will actually start to make a difference. and also there is huge pressure from other world leaders to stop that deforestation. >> what i didn't see and maybe you have the details, pro first, is whether meat consumption, beef production, of course, the biggest driver of deforestation, whether that is included here. having reported on deforestation in brazil, this is something that kept coming up. >> well, i think the important thing to realize is that we actually produce enough food in the world to feed 10 billion people. there are only 7.9 billion. so, actually the argument that we have to def...