News Analysis The COP26 climate conference is taking place in Scotland, and China has already disappointed analysts who say it is not doing enough to stop catastrophic global warming. World leaders are converging on Glasgow for the U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP26), and all eyes are on the world’s biggest polluter: China. But Beijing isn’t playing nice. Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping will not be attending. In a formal U.N. submission on Oct. 28, Beijing rejected calls to set tougher climate targets. The CCP disappointed climate analysts with its nationally determined contribution (NDC), which includes plans to increase emissions until 2030. Those are the same promises that China made in 2015, when President Barack Obama disastrously promised that America would immediately decrease emissions even as China openly planned to increase emissions for the next 15 years. Beijing still plans to continue mining and burning coal, until 2025. The …