Climate COP31 Turkey

World leaders have opened formal talks at the United Nations climate conference in Turkey, seeking agreement on concrete steps to curb global warming after a year of deadly floods, heat waves and other climate-related disasters. “We know the truth. Now we must act on it,” U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres told the COP31 gathering on Wednesday, though what will be accomplished remains uncertain. Leaders of some of the world’s biggest polluting nations, including the United States, China and India, skipped the leaders’ summit, leaving a handful of national leaders and U.N. officials to press for action. A new report warns of a widening gap between countries’ climate pledges and actual emissions cuts.