What do forests and farts have in common?

Both are part of the climate conversation, believe it or not.

Today we'll find out what world leaders plan to do about climate change.

I'm Bethany Van Delft.

It's Tuesday, November 8th, and this is the 10 News.

10. 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

Once a year, leaders from countries representing the world's biggest economies get together for a little chat called the G20 Summit.

This year's summit held in Rome, Italy, just ended.

It was the first time since the start of the pandemic, world leaders met in person.

So what did they talk about?

We're listening.

Well, they discussed taxes on big corporations, sharing COVID vaccines, and financial

help for developing countries. Leaders promised to vaccinate 40% of the world's population by the

end of 2021 and 70% by summer 2022. They also agreed to place higher taxes on big corporations and pledged to send

$100 billion to developing countries. Excellent. But the biggest thing on the agenda was the climate.

Leaders at the summit agreed that its member nations composed of 19 countries plus the European Union, which together

account for 80% of the world emissions, would end co-financing by the end of 2021, and make it a goal

to contain global warming. But critics say the group did not go far enough toward taking

real action for the planet.

Oh man.

Enter the COP 26, a whole other even bigger meeting of nations that happened in Glasgow, Scotland after the G20 summit that was all about, wait for it, climate change.

Nice. At the COP 26, 100 nations agreed to work together

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