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For an international meeting billed as planet’s Earth’s last chance, it doesn’t bode well that many of the world’s most powerful leaders might not show up. Vladimir Putin is the latest big name to boycott COP26 . A Kremlin spokesman has said that “unfortunately Putin will not fly to Glasgow”, while stressing that climate change was “one of our foreign policy’s most important priorities”. Russia is the fourth-biggest carbon emitter. Most experts think Moscow is doing far too little to tackle global warming. There are already doubts over the attendance of Chinese President Xi Jinping. China is the world’s biggest...
