FILE PHOTO: Police outside the SEC Centre in Glasgow as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, Glasgow, Scotland, Britain, March 31, 2020. REUTERS/Russell Cheyne
LONDON (Reuters) - A climate summit that had been due to take place in Glasgow in November has been postponed to 2021 because of the coronavirus outbreak, officials said on Wednesday, throwing new uncertainty into talks to tackle global warming.
With the world currently on track for catastrophic temperature increases, the two-week summit had been meant to galvanise a renewed international commitment to an accord brokered in Paris in 2015 aimed at stabilising the Earth's climate.
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