COP26: Barack Obama to attend climate change summit in Glasgow

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Former US President Barack Obama has confirmed he will attend the COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow.

He will join current president Joe Biden and more than 120 heads of state at the conference, which gets under way on 31 October.

Mr Obama is expected to meet young climate change activists and highlight their work around the world.

COP26 will be the biggest climate change conference since landmark talks in Paris in 2015.

A spokesman for Mr Obama said he would use his trip to Scotland to "lay out the important progress made in the five years since the Paris Agreement took effect".