We start the day's other headlines in Lima, Peru.

Leaders from APEC, that's the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation,

are gathering for the first global leaders summit since Donald Trump was re-elected.

All eyes are on President Biden during one of his final appearances on the world stage.

On the sidelines, he met with leaders from Japan and South Korea

and pledged to spend his last days in office bolstering their partnership.

Promoting development in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands, linking arms to secure the technologies of the future,

and countering North Korea's dangerous into stabilizing cooperation of Russia,

whether, whatever the issue, we're taking it on together.

President Biden will sit down with Chinese President Xi Jinping tomorrow.

It will be their first in-person meeting since last year's APEC summit in San Francisco

and their last with Mr. Biden as president.

A group of more than 20 climate experts and former leaders is calling for an urgent

overhaul of the UN's COP climate talks. In an open letter, they say the current structure

simply cannot deliver the change at exponential speed and scale, which is essential to ensure a safe

climate landing for humanity.

This year's summit has struggled to make progress on its goal of setting a funding target

to help developing nations deal with climate change.

But top officials today defended the process.

Ultimately, I think we all agree that it is absolutely essential for

countries to cooperate to tackle the climate crisis. No one country can do this alone. And this is the

only space that brings every country in the world together to do anything. And in this case,

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