U.S. and China call for 'action' but make no new pledges at COP26

'This is the decade that will determine' whether world does what is needed, Biden says

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Glasgow on Nov. 1. © Kyodo

MAILYS PENE-LASSUS, Nikkei staff writer

November 2, 2021 06:09 JST

GLASGOW -- The leaders of the U.S. and China, the world's two largest emitters of greenhouse gases, had strikingly different levels of visibility at the United Nations climate change conference here, but a similar message on one point: the need for action.