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Summary: A surprise deal between China and the United States, the world's two biggest greenhouse gas emitters, has boosted the COP26 UN climate summit as it enters two final days of tough bargaining to try to stop global warming becoming catastrophic. Britain's conference president, Alok Sharma, told delegations that the latest draft conclusions that he had seen showed "significant" progress, but that "we are not there yet". In particular, he called for more effort on "climate finance" - the perennially vexed question of how much the rich countries whose development caused most global warming should pay the poorer ones who...
