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The Independent: US, UK and other major polluters sidelined at ‘no-nonsense’ UN climate ambition summit

‘Humanity has opened the gates to hell,’ said UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres

Louise Boyle
Senior Climate Correspondent in New York

The list was notable for those who were not invited to speak at the UN Climate Ambition Summit on Wednesday – an event championing the “movers and doers” taking accelerated action to cut greenhouse gas emissions boiling the planet.

The leaders of China and the United States, the world’s largest polluters, were absent. President Joe Biden’s climate envoy, John Kerry, was in the room but relegated to the sidelines.

Also missing was the United Kingdom with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak preferring to stay in London to announce rollbacks on net zero policies on Wednesday, a move that was met with widespread dismay and disgust at the New York gathering.

The summit, on the sidelines of the General Assembly, was to be “no-nonsense”, according to UN chief Antonio Guterres after another year of catastrophic disasters.

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