The empty chairs at the U.N. climate summit

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the EU is also working on building a coalition of countries that would triple renewable energy and double annual energy savings by 2030, to be announced at U.N. climate talks later this year.Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa, the prime minister of Samoa, speaking for the Alliance of Small Island States, underscored the need for money and technical help from the developed world.
39% : But leaders of some of the world's biggest spewers of heat-trapping industrial emissions weren't there to hear the warnings, including President Joe Biden and heads of government from China, Russia, France and Great Britain, writes Sara Schonhardt.
32% : Disaster funding caught in House spending messMuch-needed disaster aid is collateral damage in House Republicans' dithering over a spending bill, with the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Disaster Relief Fund set to go broke soon without congressional action.

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