Denmark, Belgium Lead Call on G-20 to Step Up Climate Action

Leaders of nine countries including Denmark and Belgium called on the G-20 group of nations to raise their climate ambitions at a meeting next week scheduled to take place just before the start of COP26 talks in Glasgow.

• “The world urgently needs leadership from the biggest countries -- now,” the nine leaders, which also represent Estonia, Costa Rica and Grenada, said in an open letter to the G-20
• The alliance of climate-ambitious nations wants G-20 members to step up their emissions-reductions, according to the letter published on Thursday
• “We further call on the G20 to show solidarity with those most ...