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The King has been a longstanding advocate of protecting nature - and Prince William has taken on the baton, with his own Earthshot awards, which will be held in Brazil ahead of the COP summit.

One person familiar with the December event said the summit is intended to bring together administration officials and pharmaceutical companies, but acknowledged “there is always a business angle.”

Those include 12 U.S.-based companies or subsidiaries, nonprofit summit organizer Halifax International Security Forum and Canada-based semiconductor technology research firm TechInsights.

Modi is headed to a summit in China this weekend, his first visit to the country in years.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi made his first trip to China in over seven years this week to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit.