COP26: Growing need for climate leadership from China, the US and India - the world's worst polluters

The 26th United Nations climate change conference, better known as COP26 , will be held this year in Glasgow at the start of November, and will draw attention to world leadership and progress made since the Paris Agreement in 2015. COP26 will seek to force the biggest emitters of the greenhouse gases that precipitate global warming to make good on their promises by making clearer and firmer commitments to tackle climate change and keep the global temperature rise to below 1.5 degrees Celsius. After former US president Donald Trump's retreat from the Paris Agreement, the new administration has returned to…