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COP26: India and Japan pledge carbon neutrality, China’s Xi stays home

By DW
04 November 2021   |   11:04 am
India's Narendra Modi has spoken in Glasgow on Monday and Japan's new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was en route. But President Xi Jinping of China, the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, skipped attendance.

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