UK Urges China To Take "Concrete" Climate Action Ahead Of COP26
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Boris Johnson's government is hosting the two-week UN summit in Glasgow from Sunday, but Xi will not be attending.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday urged China's President Xi Jinping and other world leaders to take "concrete action" on climate change as they spoke by phone ahead of the upcoming COP26 talks.
The pair discussed "a range of issues, including action to address the climate crisis ahead of COP26, global trade and economic cooperation, and security and human rights", according to a press release from Johnson's Downing Street office.
Johnson's government is hosting the two-week UN summit in Glasgow from Sunday, but Xi will not be attending.
China did, however, on Thursday renew its emissions cutting plan with a promise that its carbon pollution would peak before 2030.
