World leaders and representatives have arrived in Antalya, Turkey, for the COP31 climate summit, seeking concrete commitments to tackle global warming amid increasingly severe floods, heat waves and other climate-related disasters.
Previous summits have produced ambitious promises but little meaningful action, particularly in reducing fossil fuel consumption.
The US is absent for the second year in a row under Donald Trump, who has dismissed climate change as a hoax and rolled back a number of environmental policies, despite the US itself being the world's second largest polluter after China.