GLASGOW, United Kingdom: United Nations climate talks headed toward a rocky conclusion on Friday (Saturday in Manila) after two weeks of fraught debate failed to resolve several key disputes or produce the emissions cutting plans needed to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celcius.

"The world is watching us," COP26 President Alok Sharma told delegates charged with keeping the Paris Agreement temperature goals alive even as climate-driven disasters hit countries the world over.

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