(1 Nov 2021) Russian President Vladimir Putin won't speak at the Climate Conference in Glasgow, said his spokesperson on Monday.
Dmitry Peskov confirmed that the President won't be speaking to participants of COP26 in Glasgow as "participation via video conference is not envisaged in Glasgow."
He added that Putin has already explained the country's approach to climate at G20 meeting in Rome, where the Russian leader spoke via video call.
The US President Joe Biden said he personally found the outcome of the Rome summit "disappointing," countering the positive assessments of his aides.
And he put the blame on two rivals of the U.S.
"The disappointment relates to the fact that Russia, and ... not only Russia, but China basically didn't show up in terms of any commitments to deal with climate changes," Biden said.
Peskov rebutted the accusations claiming Russia is ahead of many countries "in terms of transition to less carbon intensive ways of generation and production."
Major polluters including China and Russia had already made clear they had no immediate intention of following the U.S. and its European and Asian allies to zero out all fossil-fuel pollution by 2050.
Scientists say massive, fast cuts in fossil fuel pollution are essential to having any hope of keeping global warming at or below the limits set in the Paris climate accord.
As the summit opens, the United States is still struggling to get some of the world's biggest climate polluters - China, Russia and India - to join the U.S. and its allies in stronger pledges to burn far less coal, gas and oil and to move to cleaner energy.
Neither Putin nor Chinese President Xi Jinping are attending the Glasgow summit, although they are sending senior officials.
Their refusals, and India's, to move substantially faster to cut their reliance on coal and petroleum threaten to frustrate hopes of reaching the target cuts set in the Paris climate accord.
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