Blame Game Starts Before Climate Summit Begins

It’s “one minute to midnight” for the world, according to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, as the U.K. hosts the COP26 climate summit. Not everybody is checking their watches.

U.S. President Joe Biden laid blame on Russia and China for a disappointing Group of 20 summit over the weekend in Rome, saying they “basically didn’t show up” on commitments to fight global warming. “It’s going to require us to continue to focus on what China’s not doing, what Russia is not doing or what Saudi Arabia is not doing,” he said.