China, Japan, Australia and Mexico are also absent from the U.N.'s latest agenda for leaders' speeches at COP29. The EU will be represented at the summit by European Council President Charles Michel and the bloc's climate policy chief, Wopke Hoekstra.

Leaders from major economies, including the U.S., EU, and Brazil, plan to skip this year’s COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan.

China has requested that countries hold talks at next week's COP29 U.N. climate summit on carbon border taxes and other "restrictive trade measures" that Beijing says are hurting developing countries,

The 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) opens next week in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. The summit takes place between November, and