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President Biden's approval rating hits a new low, plus 5 million COVID deaths worldwide.

But first today's one big thing, unpacking the climate action in Glasgow.

The annual UN climate conference, COP26, began yesterday in Glasgow, Scotland.

We got a preview of how things might go after a G20 summit in Rome and, well, not great news.

We're leaders set a target of reaching carbon neutrality around mid-century,

but they left Rome with few concrete targets or commitments on climate change.

Ben Geiman is an Axios energy reporter and joining us now from Glasgow. Hi, Ben.

Thanks for having me on.

Ben, what clues did we get from Rome about how these next two weeks in Scotland are meant to go?

I think the G20 summit in Rome was a fairly powerful reminder that there was often a gulf between ambition and transforming ambition into on the ground reality.

So certainly we had the countries at the G20 talking about the importance of battling climate change.

There was no agreement on any type of date for ending use of coal-fired power among G20 nations.

And coal, of course, is the most carbon-intensive fuel.

And there's really no path to our climate goals without eventually phasing out coal.

So I think the G20 was a perfect example of the fact that you have a lot of global commitment and ambition to tackling global warming and climate change.

But when it comes down to what will individual countries do within their own borders, it gets a little bit more challenging.

So what's the goal for the next two weeks? Is it to really hammer all of that out?

What this summit is aimed at doing is securing a level of commitment and pledges worldwide to the type of very steep and very sharp emissions cuts needed to sort of hold some of the biggest harms and impacts of global warming at bay.

And so you're going to this sort of slogan, I suppose, of the organizers of the summit is keep 1.5 alive.

That is to say, keep within reach.

Let's slip away this idea that we should hold global temperature rise to no more than 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels.

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