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Politico (2 November 2021)

National leaders trooped into the Scottish Event Campus this week to take part in what’s become an annual rite of penance — apologizing for historic bad behavior on climate and pledging to eventually become pure, but not yet.

At the opening two days of the two-week COP26 U.N. climate conference in Glasgow, 115 leaders took to the summit pulpit — many to say how they plan to atone for their carbon sins, while countries being hit with the impact of climate change called for penance in the form of greater financial flows and steeper emissions cuts. 

"Why should they suffer this immediate impact, this loss and damage, because [of] emissions that we in our country began to produce 250 years ago?" asked U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

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