A series of documents reveals how some countries are acting to change some conclusions of the latest United Nations (UN) climate report in order to reduce carbon emissions. From Saudi Arabia to Brazil, everyone has something to say about continuing with their production methods that emit polluting gases.

According to the BBC, the leaked documents consist of more than 32,000 submissions made by governments, businesses and other stakeholders to the team of scientists compiling a UN report aimed at gathering the best scientific evidence on how to deal with climate change.

These assessment reports, produced by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), are used by governments to decide what actions are needed to combat climate change.

Currently, the IPCC's proposals are to reduce carbon emissions from cuts in any and all forms of production that emit polluting gases.

A number of countries argue that there is no urgency to implement the measures to reduce fossil fuel use as recommended by the IPCC study. Most countries want to see out of the report phrases that indirectly compromise their production or importation of fossil fuels. Among them are Saudi Arabia, Japan, Australia and India.

It suggests that "phrases such as 'the need for urgent and accelerated mitigation actions at all scales ...'" or "the focus of decarbonization efforts in the power systems sector should be the rapid shift to zero-carbon sources and the phase-out of fossil fuels," be deleted from the report.

Professor Corinne le Quéré of the University of East Anglia, a leading climate scientist who helped compile three major reports for the IPCC said that "there is absolutely no pressure on scientists to accept the comments."

In addition to fossils, the report suggests reducing meat consumption

The scientists say that "plant-based diets can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 50% compared to the average intensive-emission Western diet." Brazil and Argentina argue say this is not true. Both countries ask the authors to delete or change some passages in the text that refer to "plant-based diets" playing a role in combating climate change, or that describe beef as a "high-carbon" food.

This lobby raises some questions for the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2021 (COP26), which will take place in November in Glasgow, Scotland.