Climate COP31 Turkey

World leaders were urged to act decisively to curb global warming and provide more money to help vulnerable countries adapt, as formal talks opened Wednesday at the United Nations climate conference in Turkey. The summit comes after a year of deadly floods, heat waves and other climate-related disasters. What will be accomplished at COP31 remains uncertain as top leaders of some of the world’s biggest polluting nations — including the United States, China and India — skipped the summit. A new report warns of a widening gap between countries’ climate pledges and emissions cuts.