World leaders begin UN climate talks amid concerns action on global warming too slow

World leaders began arriving on Wednesday to start formal discussions at the United Nations climate change conference in Turkey, hoping to agree on concrete actions to curb global warming after a year of deadly floods, heatwaves and other climate-related disasters.

But what can and will be accomplished at the 11-day Conference of the Parties, called Cop31, remains to be seen.

Past talks have been criticised for making promises that later fell flat, and some big names are missing from this year’s...