Rishi Sunak has arise in the account that the government will abide to benumb ammunition duty, a activity that has fabricated it added cheaper to drive compared to added environmentally adequate alternatives.
The advertisement has prompted acrimony from activists, with Blooming MP Caroline Lucas admonishing that the adjudicator did not “get the advertisement on the altitude emergency”.
The Prince of Wales will bear the aperture abode at the Cop26 UN altitude change summit, Clarence House has announced.
Charles, who delivered the aperture accent at Cop21 in Paris in 2015, will allege to accumulation aggregate in Glasgow for the aperture commemoration on Monday hosted by Prime Abbot Boris Johnson.
It comes alone canicule afore the Cop26 acme is due to alpha breadth nations will accumulate to altercate altitude change solutions. The adjudicator additionally cut taxes on calm flights, authoritative journeys aural the UK cheaper.
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10:50 , Matt Mathers
A $1bn plan backed by the UK and EU to assure the world’s second-largest rainforest could acquiesce for added automated logging that it is feared will apple-pie out the backwoods aural decades, according to leaked abstracts apparent by The Independent.
Our New York-based arch altitude contributor Louise Boyle reports:
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10:35 , Matt Mathers
In a accent on the arctic assay abode alleged afterwards him, Sir David Attenborough alleged on apple leaders affair for the Cop26 altitude talks to accept to the science.
The RSS Sir David Attenborough is anchored in London advanced of its aboriginal Antarctic mission afterwards this year.
He acicular to how bound apple leaders acted in acknowledgment to affirmation from British scientists in the 1980s of the accident to the blast layer, accordant the Montreal Acceding to appearance out CFCs aloof two years later.
He said: “We all apperceive the aftereffect of the dangers adverse us in the actual future.
“Would it not be marvellous to accept that as a aftereffect of our discoveries, and science’s discoveries, the nations of the apple abutting calm and absolutely did commodity in this advancing Cop?” he said.
He said he hoped and prayed that the appointment took activity and that nations get calm and accept to the science of what has to be done if the apple was not to be afflicted by altitude change.
He said he was actual appreciative and could anticipate of no greater acclaim than to be associated with the vessel.
In a accent on the arctic assay abode alleged afterwards him, Sir David Attenborough alleged on apple leaders affair for the Cop26 altitude talks to accept to the science.
10:19 , Matt Mathers
Labour has airtight adjudicator Rishi Sunak’s move to carve air commuter assignment advanced of the acute Cop26 altitude summit.
Analsysts said the policy, which cuts the amount of calm flights, encourages air biking over abuse journeys at a time aback emissions charge to be cut.
Rachel Reeves, the adumbration chancellor, declared the move as “astonishing”.
She told BBC Radio 4 Today: “We wouldn’t accept gone advanced with that cut. “I acquisition it amazing that, the anniversary afore Cop26, breadth we are declared to be assuming all-around leadership, we accept cut air commuter assignment on calm flights.
“We should be auspicious bodies to use our alternation arrangement for those journeys.”
10:01 , Matt Mathers
Governments about the apple charge to advance added in technology to accomplish blooming choices easier and cheaper for consumers, a top accurate adviser has said.
Patrick Vallance, Boris Johnson’s arch accurate adviser – who has played a arch role in Britain’s Covid acknowledgment – said architecture accommodation for “research and development” is key.
“We charge accordance internationally above science to accomplish abiding that we get addition above the apple accessible, and we charge to anatomy accommodation for assay and development in those countries which charge it in adjustment to get to the solution,” he told BBC Breakfast.
Encouraging bodies to aeon rather than drive will admonition to abate emissions, he added.
Asked about the Account allurement to animate aerial about the UK and whether it beatific the amiss message, Sir Patrick said his accurate admonition is that “all of us demography some activity to abate aerial would be a benign thing” and there is a charge to get to a adequate way of flying.
09:45 , Stuti Mishra
Cop26, the 2021 United Nations altitude change conference, is about aloft us and the coercion of the business in duke is actuality acquainted like never before.
Here at The Independent, we are alms you an absolute way to accept a circadian account account absolute from our correspondents on the arena at the summit.
Our aggregation of committed ambiance and altitude reporters will be accumulation a newsletter on a circadian base and it will be beatific out anniversary black of the acme bringing all the latest account from that day’s events.
The circadian appointment will accompany you up to acceleration on what has been discussed, what has been agreed, absolute interviews our aggregation will backpack out with the accumulation and others, as able-bodied as a abaft the scenes appearance and assay from the latest 24 hours in Glasgow.
To assurance up for our altitude newsletter and the Cop26 appropriate editions bang here
09:12 , Stuti Mishra
More than 25,000 accumulation are set to alight on Glasgow in beneath than two weeks aback the Cop26 altitude acme which was delayed by Covid-19 assuredly begins.
Hosted by the UK beneath the admiral of aloft business secretary Alok Sharma and in affiliation with Italy, the acme at the city’s Scottish Accident Campus (SEC) will accompany calm the bigger acquisition of apple leaders anytime accumulated on British soil.
The appointment will run for 12 days, from Sunday 31 October to Friday 12 November.
Transport Scotland has warned that the calibration of the accident “is aberrant in acceding of appulse on the carriage network”.Joe Sommerlad reports
08:37 , Stuti Mishra
Torrential rain has acquired calamity in west Scotland as cloudburst causes water-logging in Glasgow, with aloof three canicule to go for the acute Cop26 summit.
Videos and photos acquaint on amusing media appearance anchorage inundated in baptize triggering a cartage jam, while the abuse arrangement has already been affected.
Earlier, the Met Office had warned of life-threatening calamity as it issued amber acclimate warnings for rain in north-west England and south-west Scotland.
07:30 , Stuti Mishra
Remember Cop25? If so, it’s apparently not for the appropriate reasons. The aftermost UN altitude summit, captivated in Madrid in 2019, was characterised by squabbles amidst aloft communicable nations and ultimately a black abridgement of action.
Now on the bend of Cop26 in Glasgow – adjourned for a year due the Covid communicable – there is an alike narrower window to accommodated the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement, advised to barrier alike greater altitude extremes.
Countries charge accomplish to badly abate their planet-heating emissions to accumulate all-around temperature acceleration to an added aggressive 1.5C aback pre-industrial times, or “well below” 2C. Currently, the apple has acrimonious about 1.1C.
Pre-Paris deal, the apple was annex for temperature acceleration abutting to 4C, and while this has dropped, it is still tracking to hit added than 3C this century. The Apple Meteorological Organisation arise on Monday that greenhouse gas concentrations hit a almanac aerial aftermost year, and added at a faster amount than the anniversary boilerplate for the aftermost decade, admitting a acting abridgement during Covid lockdowns.
The Independent’s Arch Altitude Contributor Louise Boyle explains how abundant advance has been fabricated aback the aftermost UN altitude summit.
How abundant advance has been fabricated aback Cop25 and how far do we accept to go?
07:00 , Stuti Mishra
Cop26, the 26th UN Altitude Change Appointment of the Parties will assuredly arise in Glasgow, Scotland, at the end of October, a year afterwards it was delayed because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Hosted by the UK beneath the admiral of aloft business secretary Alok Sharma and in affiliation with Italy, the acme at the city’s SEC Centre will accompany calm the bigger acquisition of apple leaders anytime accumulated on British clay over the advance of its 12-day run from Sunday 31 October to Friday 12 November.
Boris Johnson, Scottish aboriginal abbot Nicola Sturgeon and US admiral Joe Biden will be amidst the visiting dignitaries, as will Sir David Attenborough and Greta Thunberg, the world’s two best acclaimed altitude activists, admitting the closing criticising the accident and cogent cynicism about its diplomacy of accomplishing allusive change.
The 197 signatories, or “parties”, to the UN Framework Convention on Altitude Change will all be represented in Glasgow, forth with tens of bags of negotiators, government officials, businesses and activists, all acquisitive to accomplish their choir heard and see a absolute plan fatigued up to realise the goals of the 2015 Paris Acceding and abstain the all-around altitude accident our planet faces.
Here’s the official calendar for Cop26 and which capacity will be up for altercation on which days.
Full calendar for this year’s Cop26 altitude acme in Glasgow
06:30 , Stuti Mishra
Glasgow is set to become the focus of the world’s absorption this weekend, as the long-awaited altitude acme Cop26 assuredly opens.
The two-week accident is the latest all-embracing affair aiming to rapidly accompany bottomward the emissions from the afire of greenhouse gases which are heating up our planet.
The UN has billed the acme as a “crucial” befalling for countries to abstain the affliction impacts of a abating world, including adverse sea-level rises and acute acclimate and aliment shortages. The “conference of the parties” has been declared as the “last adventitious saloon” to plan and booty activity aural an able time frame.
Almost 200 apple leaders, forth with 20,000 accumulation and tens of bags of campaigners and protesters are set to alight on Glasgow, in a aloft accomplishment to blueprint a added adequate approaching for our species.
As the UN warns the apple is ‘heading for catastrophe’, Harry Cockburn tells you how to accumulate an eye on what diplomacy at the ‘last chance’ Glasgow conference.
05:56 , Stuti Mishra
A carbon neutrality appetite isn’t the band-aid to altitude change and developed countries should accede their celebrated responsibility, India s federal ambiance abbot said advanced of the Cop26 acme starting this Sunday.
Bhupendra Yadav, who will be accessory the UN acme forth with prime abbot Narendra Modi, said on Wednesday that India managed to accomplish its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) advanced of time and afterwards any aloft banking admonition from the developed nations.
However, altitude accounts charcoal an important affair that Cop26 should try and address, the abbot added.
India as the third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases is beneath added burden to advertise net-zero goals. However, top admiral said India has historically contributed to alone 4 per cent of absolute emissions aback the 1850s.
Environment secretary RP Gupta told reporters, instead of net-zero “it is how abundant carbon you are activity to put in the atmosphere afore extensive net-zero that is added important.”
05:25 , Stuti Mishra
A altitude apostle from the organisation Ocean Rebellion dressed as Boris Johnson and set bonfire to a baiter in Glasgow to beef adjoin the use of deposit fuels.
The protester, allotment of the Extinction Rebellion affiliated group, wore a apocryphal arch advised to accessory like the prime abbot while ambience ablaze to the prop with the words “Your Children’s Future” alfresco the Cop26 venue.
The campaigners, including an “Oilhead” appearance with a petrol can mask, additionally austere amaranthine of afflicted money during the beef on the banks of the River Clyde in Glasgow, adverse the armpit of the accessible Cop26 conference.
Boris Johnson amateur in Glasgow sets bonfire to baiter to beef deposit ammunition use
04:49 , Stuti Mishra
US admiral Joe Biden may accept to go to the Cop26 acme afterwards an acceding on his altitude activity bill, Reuters account bureau reported.
Mr Biden’s $1.5 trillion-$2 abundance spending plan to ascendancy altitude change and aggrandize bloom and assurance net programs has remained mired in intraparty squabbles on Wednesday, as did a affiliated $1 abundance basement bill that additionally includes climate-related measures.
While the admiral was acquisitive to defended the abetment on the bill afore annex for the all-embracing altitude summit, a key Democrat told the account bureau that time has artlessly run out for annihilation to be finalised afore his departure.
04:30 , Stuti Mishra
04:28 , Stuti Mishra
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Wednesday 27 October 2021 16:20 , Thomas Kingsley
The all-around accent of absorption Africa’s carbon-rich accustomed landscapes will be centre date at the United Nations Cop26 altitude acme abutting anniversary at an accident actuality co-staged by The Independent.
Kenyan Admiral Uhuru Kenyatta and Evgeny Lebedev are convening the high-level accident to altercate how clandestine and accessible breadth advance in these acute carbon sinks is basic to combatting the altitude crisis.
The accident will be live-streamed by The Absolute on Absolute TV.
See the abounding adventure below:
Kenyan admiral and Lord Lebedev to assemble Cop26 accident on arrest altitude crisis
Wednesday 27 October 2021 15:59 , Thomas Kingsley
Transport administration accept been told they charge to “put pay amends on the agenda” if they appetite to anticipate abuse strikes during the all-around Cop26 altitude acme in Glasgow.
With apple leaders annex to Scotland for the acute altitude talks, associates of the RMT abutment are aggressive to bang for the continuance of the summit.
Other unions accept accustomed the accordance on the table, but Scotland’s carriage abbot Graeme Dey has warned he is “not optimistic” of a resolution actuality accomplished with the RMT advanced of the borderline set for 5pm on Wednesday.
Speaking at Holyrood on Tuesday afternoon, Mr Dey accused the RMT of alteration its counter-proposals, and said: “Multiple times over contempo weeks, we accept been led anon and about to accept that there was a accessible resolution of this dispute.
“This government and ScotRail accomplished out on all occasions, alone to acquisition the goalposts moved.
“It has been actual difficult to authorize assurance in this process.”
In response, RMT accepted secretary Mick Lynch said: “This anarchic accent helps no one. We are not activity to allow in digging added trenches aback there is abounding time to boldness these disputes if we get talks aback on.
“We are accessible and cat-and-mouse to get aback annular the table and Mr Dey should be absorption his efforts on authoritative that happen.”
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Wednesday 27 October 2021 15:36 , Thomas Kingsley
The Prince of Wales will bear the aperture abode at the Cop26 UN altitude change summit, Clarence House has announced.
Charles, who delivered the aperture accent at Cop21 in Paris in 2015, will allege to accumulation aggregate in Glasgow for the aperture commemoration on Monday hosted by Prime Abbot Boris Johnson.
It comes as Buckingham Palace arise beforehand this anniversary that the Queen would absence the acme afterward doctors’ admonition to rest.
Prince Charles has warned that altitude change is the
Wednesday 27 October 2021 15:15 , Thomas Kingsley
Ed Miliban alternate to PMQs today arduous Boris Johnson to activity added than “climate delay” at Cop26.
Shadow activity secretary Mr Miliband was a backward backup for Sir Keir Starmer, who was appropriate to abstract afterwards testing absolute for Covid-19.
As he rose to his anxiety to heckles from the Conservative benches, Mr Miliband – who stepped bottomward as Labour baton in 2015 – said: “Just like the old days.”
He said Mr Johnson had debilitated his own Cop admiral by “saying one affair and accomplishing another” afterwards highlighting a abridgement of charge to the altitude in barter deals and cogent others to carelessness deposit fuels while not accomplishing so as a government.
Mr Johnson accent his talks with apple leaders advanced of the summit, adding: “It’s still too aboriginal to say whether it will succeed. It’s in the balance.”
Mr Miliband countered: “The affair the Prime Abbot has underestimated throughout these aftermost two years is Cop26 is not a adored photo befalling – it’s a fragile, circuitous negotiation.”
Mr Miliband is continuing in for Labour baton Sir Keir Starmer who has activated absolute for Covid-19. (PA)
Wednesday 27 October 2021 15:05 , Thomas Kingsley
The advance of coronavirus by activists about the Cop26 acme is a “concern,” a accessible bloom able has said.
Professor Linda Bauld said assurance measures were in abode at the acme itself, but added gatherings airish a greater risk.
It’s estimated that 100,000 bodies – including Greta Thunberg – will booty allotment in altitude protests during the summit.
“If things tip one way or the other, behaviour or crumbling vaccine immunity, apropos about COP – these are all in the mix – it could go aloft 1.0 afresh and that’s a bearings we don’t appetite to be in,” Professor Bauld told the BBC’s Adequate Morning Scotland programme.
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Wednesday 27 October 2021 14:45 , Thomas Kingsley
Korean Netflix alternation Squid Game has been discussed online 10 times added than Cop26 in the accomplished 30 days, a abstraction has found.
The abstraction by software aggregation Brandwatch, activate that on added than 5.2 actor abstracts points, the dystopian abstruseness was added talked about than the altitude acme which has been labelled the world’s “last best hope” to abode accelerating issues of altitude change.
Squid Game continues to boss chat (Netflix / Squid Game)
Wednesday 27 October 2021 14:20 , Thomas Kingsley
The government will cut taxes on calm flights to accomplish it cheaper to fly aural the UK, Rishi Sunak has announced.
In a account delivered aloof canicule afore the UK hosts the Cop26 UN altitude appointment in Glasgow the adjudicator said he basic to accomplish centralized air biking cheaper to “cut the amount of living”.
And he additionally arise that the government will abide to benumb ammunition duty, a activity that has fabricated it added cheaper to drive compared to added environmentally adequate alternatives.
Our activity contributor Jon Stone has the abounding adventure below:
Rishi Sunak cuts taxes on calm flights canicule afore Cop26 altitude summit
Wednesday 27 October 2021 14:00 , Thomas Kingsley
A accumulation of 30 ecology activists spent Tuesday night camped out in the Science Architecture in South Kensington, axial London, afterwards application the academy to beef adjoin it accepting money from businesses with ties to deposit ammunition extraction.
Activists from the London annex of UK Student Altitude Arrangement (UKSCN) spent 18 hours in the museum.
UKSCN active the exhibition centre’s antechamber for breadth their demonstration alpha about 5.40pm on Tuesday black and seeing participants date a candlelit acuity for “the victims of the museum’s deposit ammunition sponsors: Shell, BP, Equinor and Adani”.
Our anchorman Joe Sommerlad has the abounding report:
Climate activists absorb Science Architecture brief in beef adjoin sponsors
Wednesday 27 October 2021 13:36 , Thomas Kingsley
Billie Eilish and Rainn Wilson accept abutting armament with scientists from Arctic Basecamp, calling on apple leaders to booty afire activity at the United Nations Cop26 altitude acme in Glasgow abutting week.
“This year, our leaders are arch the all-around accomplishments appropriate on the ambiance and altitude emergency in a analytical decade for our planet,” 19-year-old Billie Eilish says in a video account acquaint by the University of Exeter’s official Twitter handle.
Mr Wilson added: “Courage. That’s what our world’s leaders charge added than anything.”
“We charge to act with urgency. We charge to bisected emissions by 2030. Apple leaders, are you up for it? I am! Let’s try and do the impossible.”
Our anchorman Peony Hirwani has the abounding abode below:
Billie Eilish and Rainn Wilson alarm for ‘urgent action’ amidst altitude crisis
Wednesday 27 October 2021 13:15 , Thomas Kingsley
What is Cop26?
Cop stands for appointment of the parties beneath the UN Framework Convention on Altitude Change (UNFCCC). This year is the 26th abundance of the anniversary meeting.
The 197 signatories, or “parties”, to the UNFCCC will all be represented in Glasgow, forth with tens of bags of negotiators, government officials, businesses and activists, all acquisitive to accomplish their choir heard and see a absolute plan fatigued up to realise the goals of the 2015 Paris Acceding and abstain the all-around altitude accident our planet faces.
Our anchorman Joe Sommerlad has the abounding adventure below:
What does Cop26 angle for and why does it matter?
Wednesday 27 October 2021 13:00 , Thomas Kingsley
While the accent of the acme has been heavily absorbed and apprehension is aerial that a generation-defining acceding will be active to rein in greenhouse gas emissions and put the anchor on the clip of all-around heating in band with the goals of the 2015 Paris accord, there is currently a adequate accordance of ambiguity surrounding absolutely who will be attending.
Chinese arch Xi Jinping is still yet to affirm if he will arise the summit.
“We still charge to delay for the advice from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and alone afterwards they accomplish an advertisement will we acquaint you,” adept altitude agent Xie Zhenhua told Reuters on 19 October aback asked whether Mr Xi would be attending.
Our anchorman Joe Sommerlad has the abounding adventure below:
Will China’s Xi Jinping arise Cop26?
Wednesday 27 October 2021 12:40 , Thomas Kingsley
Greta Thunberg, the Swedish jailbait who sensationally became the face of the all-embracing absorption movement through her Fridays for Approaching academy strikes, has caked contemptuousness on the conference’s diplomacy of realising allusive change through cooperation amid apple governments.
Asked whether she was in optimistic affection advanced of Cop26 during a contempo account with The Guardian, Ms Thunberg answered: “I am not. Annihilation has afflicted from antecedent years really. The leaders will say we’ll do this and we’ll do this, and we will put our armament calm and accomplish this, and again they will do nothing. Maybe some allegorical things and artistic accounting and things that don’t absolutely accept a big impact. We can accept as abounding Cops as we want, but annihilation absolute will arise out of it.”
Our anchorman Joe Sommerlad has the abounding abode below:
Why are activists calling for Cop26 to be cancelled?
Wednesday 27 October 2021 12:20 , Thomas Kingsley
With bags of bodies set to admission in the burghal for the acme at the end of October, Carriage Scotland has warned that the calibration of the accident “is aberrant in acceding of appulse on the carriage network”.
A huge logistical undertaking, Cop26 will see 140 active of accompaniment including Boris Johnson, US admiral Joe Biden, French admiral Emmanuel Macron, Indian prime abbot Narendra Modi and Brazilian admiral Jair Bolsonaro alight on Glasgow.
To board a appointment of this magnitude, organisers in Glasgow accept had to plan anxiously to abate the disruption, with the aboriginal alley closures advancing into aftereffect a abounding anniversary afore Cop26 bliss off, active from Saturday 23 October until Monday 15 November.
Our anchorman Joe Sommerlad has the abounding abode below:
How Cop26 alley closures will affect biking in Glasgow
Wednesday 27 October 2021 12:08 , Thomas Kingsley
GMB, the abutment apery bags of arresting charwoman and debris agents in Glasgow said they will be abutting Greta Thunberg in a altitude bang on Friday, 5 November.
In a video acquaint on Twitter, GMB arch Chris Mitchell said: “Camaraderie and adherence to all academy strikers boot with @FFF_Glasgow (Fridays for Future).
“We’d like to say acknowledge you and extend a balmy Glasgow adequate to Greta Thunberg.”
Wednesday 27 October 2021 11:51 , Thomas Kingsley
A division of a actor UK babies a year are built-in in baneful air hotspots that can abuse their lungs, abstracts arise afore the basic UN altitude appointment show.
Asthma UK and the British Lung Foundation say the abstracts accede the “national abashment of children’s bloom austere from bearing by air pollution”.
Sarah Woolnough, CEO of both charities said: “How can it be adequate that the aboriginal animation a babyish takes could be so bedraggled it could actively affect their abiding health?
“The government charge bonfire a trail, not aloof at Cop26 but beyond, to accompany in adventurous new apple-pie air laws and set aggressive targets to apple-pie up the air by 2030.”
Our anchorman Rory Sullivan has the abounding adventure below:
Baby built-in into baneful air every 2 account in UK, abstraction shows
Wednesday 27 October 2021 11:39 , Thomas Kingsley
Cop26 will be hosted by aloft business secretary Alok Sharma and in affiliation with Italy. Captivated at the Glasgow’s SEC Centre, bags of accumulation will be at the 12-day event.
Boris Johnson, Scottish aboriginal abbot Nicola Sturgeon and US admiral Joe Biden will be amidst the visiting dignitaries, as will Sir David Attenborough and Greta Thunberg, the world’s two best acclaimed altitude activists, admitting the closing criticising the accident and cogent cynicism about its diplomacy of accomplishing allusive change.
Our anchorman Joe Sommerlad has the abounding story:
Full calendar for this year’s Cop26 altitude acme in Glasgow
Wednesday 27 October 2021 11:20 , Thomas Kingsley
The Metropolitan Police has said it has arrested 17 Insulate Britain activists blocking the A40 alliance with Gypsy Lane in North Acton.
Police said six of the protesters had alert themselves to the arena and specialist units were deployed to abolish them.
Wednesday 27 October 2021 11:10 , Thomas Kingsley
The aftermost UN altitude summit, captivated in Madrid in 2019, was characterised by squabbles amidst aloft communicable nations and ultimately a black abridgement of action.
Now on the bend of Cop26 in Glasgow – adjourned for a year due to the Covid communicable – there is an alike narrower window to accommodated the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement, advised to barrier alike greater altitude extremes.
Countries charge accomplish badly to abate their planet-heating emissions to accumulate all-around temperature acceleration to an added aggressive 1.5C aback pre-industrial times, or “well below” 2C. Currently, the apple has acrimonious about 1.1C.
Our altitude contributor Louise Boyle has the abounding adventure below:
How abundant advance has been fabricated aback Cop25 and how far do we accept to go?
Wednesday 27 October 2021 10:57 , Holly Bancroft
Government altitude admiral accept criticised Boris Johnson’s activity for acid emissions to net aught for not including measures to abate appeal for flying.
The Altitude Change Board said the programme was a aloft footfall forward, but criticised the activity for abrogation out measures to absolute advance in the aerodynamics breadth or auspicious bodies to eat beneath meat.
My aide Adam Forrest has a beat of their recommendations.
UK government charge accomplish bodies fly less, say altitude advisers
Wednesday 27 October 2021 10:50 , Thomas Kingsley
The two-week altitude acme is the latest all-embracing affair aiming to rapidly accompany bottomward the emissions from the afire of greenhouse gases which are heating up the planet.
The acme follows a year of acute acclimate about the world, in which storms and heatwaves accept apprenticed boundless calamity and wildfires above Africa, Europe, America, Asia and Australia.
So what could we apprehend to see at Cop26? Our contributor Harry Cockburn has the abounding adventure below:
Six things to accessory out for at Cop26 – and why the altitude acme matters
Wednesday 27 October 2021 10:34 , Thomas Kingsley
New assay by activity aggregation E.ON has activate that 90 per cent of Britons don’t apperceive what Cop26 is while 80 per cent are larboard confused, demotivated or aloof about altitude activity because of “carbon jargon.”
Commenting on the research, Michael Lewis, CEO of E.ON UK, said: “Knowing added is generally the key to accomplishing added – abnormally aback allurement bodies to accomplish changes to their homes and their lifestyles in adjustment to admonition activity the altitude crisis. We charge to accomplish this commodity bodies appetite to do, as able-bodied as commodity they charge to do, and this includes simplifying the accent we use so bodies can appropriately accept the allowances of a cleaner, greener lifestyle.”
Cop26 is alone canicule abroad (EPA)
Wednesday 27 October 2021 10:13 , Holly Bancroft
A talking anachronistic has become the brilliant of a new UN PR attack to appetite added altitude activity from apple leaders.
In a abbreviate publicity film, fabricated by the United Nations Development Programme, the talking CGI anachronistic tells an admirers of diplomats and dignitaries that “it’s time bodies chock-full authoritative excuses and started authoritative changes” to abode the altitude crisis.
The attack is the aboriginal blur to be fabricated central the UN accepted accumulation application computer-generated adumbration and includes acclaimed actors charge the anachronistic in altered languages.
School of Rock star, Jack Black, tells admirers in English that “at atomic we had an asteroid. What’s your excuse?”
Watch the video here:
Don’t Choose Extinction
Wednesday 27 October 2021 10:13 , Thomas Kingsley
Environmental activist accumulation Insulate Britain, resumed its alternation of roadblock protests beforehand this anniversary afterwards a 10-day break. The accumulation brought the banking commune to a standstill on Monday and accept today amorphous protests blocking the A40.
Insulate Britain has become abominable for its “campaign of civilian resistance” in contempo months, which has apparent its associates barricade active anchorage in and about the capital, from the M25 to Old Artery roundabout, the Blackwall Tunnel and Wandsworth Bridge, to draw absorption to perceived cessation and insincerity on blooming issues from Boris Johnson’s Cabinet.
But what is the movement abaft weeks of cartage disruptions?
Our anchorman Joe Sommerlad has the abounding adventure below:
What is Insulate Britain and what are beef group’s goals?
Wednesday 27 October 2021 10:00 , Thomas Kingsley
A six-year all-around abstraction has activate that added bodies above the apple are added anxious about the climate.
Over the accomplished six years, added than 181,000 bodies in 20 countries accept been asked about the altitude crisis in the bigger abstraction of its kind.
It comes canicule abroad from the alpha of Cop26. The allegation accede some 78 per cent of bodies anguish about human-driven accident to the planet – up from 71 per cent in 2014.
Our altitude contributor Louise Boyle has the abounding abode below:
More bodies than anytime afore afraid bodies are ruining the planet
Wednesday 27 October 2021 09:28 , Holly Bancroft
Insulate Britain accept connected their attack of disruption by blocking two aloft anchorage in London on Wednesday morning.
The altitude accumulation blocked the A40 in West London and a ambagious in Dartford to appetite the government to bigger insulate homes.
A agent for the Metropolitan Police said: “The Met is acquainted of Insulate Britain activists blocking the alley at the A40 alliance with Gypsy Lane in North Acton.
“Officers were promptly on the scene. Cartage has had to be absent for the assurance of all. We’ll allotment updates soon.”
The protests arise aloof a day afterwards addition admonition was accepted adjoin Insulate Britain accoutrement the “entire cardinal alley network”.
My aide Furvah Shah has the latest on the beef here.
Insulate Britain protesters block aloft London road
Wednesday 27 October 2021 09:22 , Holly Bancroft
Lower assets countries are spending bristles times added on application their debt than they are on arresting with altitude change, assay from an anti abjection alms has found.
The Jubilee Debt Attack estimated that 34 of the world’s atomic countries are spending £21.4bn on debt payments anniversary year, compared to £3.9bn on abbreviation the appulse of the altitude crisis, according to abstracts arise in The Guardian.
Heidi Chow, controlling administrator of the Jubilee Debt Campaign, said that some of these countries will be adopting the affair at the Cop26 appointment this weekend.
She said: “Lower assets countries are handing over billions of dollars in debt repayments to affluent countries, banks and all-embracing banking institutions at a time aback assets are badly bald to activity the altitude crisis.
“In Glasgow, affluent communicable nations charge to stop abstention their responsibilities and accommodate altitude accounts through grants, as able-bodied as abolish debts.”
Wednesday 27 October 2021 08:20 , Holly Bancroft
Young altitude activists spent the night in the Science Architecture in beef at its advocacy deals with deposit ammunition companies.
The London annex of the UK Student Altitude Arrangement captivated a candlelit acuity at the architecture on Tuesday black and acquaint photos of the billet on amusing media on Wednesday morning.
The acuity was for “the victims of the museum’s deposit ammunition sponsors: Shell, BP, Equinor and Adani”. About 30 acceptance were complex in the beef and The Black Standard arise that the activists were bound in overnight.
Wednesday 27 October 2021 07:01 , Stuti Mishra
With Cop26 blame from stricter altitude agenda, countries will be absorption on curbs for abundant carbon emissions and there will be added analysis for industries that accept been abundant polluters.
However, there are abounding companies that accept adopted adequate bureau and are alive arise blooming technology. Experts say there are abounding added that can account from ecology themes.
But what can investors do to abutment the assorted industries and companies that are complex in creating a added adequate planet?
Here Rob Griffin asks the experts to highlight the assorted sectors, stocks and funds that could be account considering.
Cop26: How to put your money breadth your aperture is
Wednesday 27 October 2021 06:30 , Stuti Mishra
One of the key aspects in Cop26 discussions will be the affair of altitude financing. Developing countries like India accept continued maintained that altitude activity should be adjourned by developed countries.
However, there’s growing accordance that added aggressive pledges charge to be undertaken in adjustment to accumulate altitude change beneath 2C.
Here Daisy Dunne explores whether wealthier countries, that got affluent by afire deposit fuels, accept a albatross to atone those at the beginning of the crisis.
Paying for pollution: The case for altitude reparations
Wednesday 27 October 2021 06:01 , Stuti Mishra
Leaders and accumulation of 197 countries with their alive associates of advisers, envoys and aegis cadre will be accession at the Scottish burghal of Glasgow over the 13 canicule of the Cop26 summit.
Along with the estimated 25,000 people, a host of ecology activists and protesters are additionally accepted to be in the city.
How will the altitude acme affect the anchorage and carriage in the city?
Joe Sommerland reports
How Cop26 alley closures will affect biking in Glasgow
Wednesday 27 October 2021 05:25 , Stuti Mishra
The aboriginal pictures of the Cop26 appointment centre which is set to adequate the participants from 197 countries on Sunday were aggregate by UNFCCC’s agent controlling secretary Ovais Sarmad on Twitter.
Referring to the acme as “unprecedented & historic,” Mr Sarmad wrote assurance and hygiene will be accustomed aerial antecedence at the venue.
Wednesday 27 October 2021 04:53 , Stuti Mishra
While the COP26 acme is already demography abode afterwards a gap of one year, the communicable restrictions are still affecting the appearance of abounding countries, abnormally the ones added accessible to altitude change.
Border closures, apprehension rules and aerial biking costs will see baby island states and poorer nations sending abate delegations, with some leaders clumsy to biking to the acme starting in Scotland on Sunday.
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Covid challenges ‘disadvantage’ abate nations in COP26 altitude talks
Wednesday 27 October 2021 04:23 , Stuti Mishra
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Tuesday 26 October 2021 18:29 , Holly Bancroft
The Queen will not be accessory the Cop26 altitude summit, Buckingham Palace has confirmed.
The 95-year-old monarch, who spent a night in hospital aftermost week, was declared to biking to Glasgow for an assurance on 1 November.
A Palace agent said: “Her Majesty has regretfully absitively that she will no best biking to Glasgow to arise the black accession of Cop26 on Monday, 1st November.
“Her Majesty is aghast not to arise the accession but will bear an abode to the accumulated accumulation via a recorded video message.”
Here Joe Middleton has the latest details.
The Queen will not arise Cop26 acme in Glasgow abutting week
Tuesday 26 October 2021 18:05 , Joe Middleton
The 26th UN Altitude Change Appointment of the Parties (Cop26) will assuredly arise in Glasgow, Scotland, at the end of October, a year afterwards it was delayed because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Hosted by the UK beneath the admiral of aloft business secretary Alok Sharma and in affiliation with Italy, the acme at the city’s SEC Centre will accompany calm the bigger acquisition of apple leaders anytime accumulated on British clay over the advance of its 12-day run from Sunday 31 October to Friday 12 November.
While the accent of the acme has been heavily absorbed and apprehension is aerial that a generation-defining acceding will be active to rein in greenhouse gas emissions and put the anchor on the clip of all-around heating in band with the goals of the 2015 Paris accord, there is currently a adequate accordance of ambiguity surrounding absolutely who will be attending.
Without the agog cooperation of the affecting leaders of some of the planet’s bigger communicable nations, annihilation agreed at Cop26 will arena absolutely hollow.
The affliction draft to Boris Johnson’s ambitions for the acquisition so far has been the Kremlin’s advertisement that Russian admiral Vladimir Putin will not be attending.
But conceivably the greatest affair of all admitting is whether Chinese arch Xi Jinping will fly into Glasgow.
Joe Sommerlad reports.
Will China’s Xi Jinping arise Cop26?
Tuesday 26 October 2021 17:35 , Joe Middleton
Remember Cop25? If so, it’s apparently not for the appropriate reasons. The aftermost UN altitude summit, captivated in Madrid in 2019, was characterised by squabbles amidst aloft communicable nations and ultimately a black abridgement of action.
Now on the bend of Cop26 in Glasgow – adjourned for a year due the Covid communicable – there is an alike narrower window to accommodated the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement, advised to barrier alike greater altitude extremes.
The Independent’s arch altitude contributor Louis Boyle reports.
How abundant advance has been fabricated aback Cop25 and how far do we accept to go?
Tuesday 26 October 2021 17:05 , Joe Middleton
EU blooming activity arch Frans Timmermans will accommodated China’s top altitude agent Xie Zhenhua contiguous for the aboriginal time on Wednesday advanced of the Cop26 summit.
Chinese Admiral Xi Jinping is not accepted to arise the altitude talks and some campaigners are anxious that the world’s bigger CO2 ambassador does not plan on actualization a new agreement at the United Nations accident in Scotland.
But while Xi has not travelled alfresco China aback afore the pandemic, he has fabricated three aloft altitude announcements on the all-embracing stage, including a agreement at aftermost month’s UN accepted accumulation to stop allotment atramentous plants abroad.
At their affair appointed to booty abode in London on Wednesday, Xie and Timmermans will “go through the latest developments and see breadth we all angle in these aftermost few canicule afore the Cop26 clearly begins,” an EU official said.
The 27 countries of the EU were amidst 143 to admission their altitude pledges this year, out of the about 200 that active the Paris accord. The EU has committed, in law, to cut net emissions at atomic 55% from 1990 levels by 2030 and hit net aught by 2050.
China is amidst the aloft emitters that has yet to abide a new altitude target. It has apprenticed to become carbon aloof by 2060 and stop accretion its emissions afore 2030, although it has not affianced bottomward a date by which its emissions will peak.
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Tuesday 26 October 2021 16:44 , Joe Middleton
UN secretary accepted Antonio Guterres has lamented a “leadership gap” advanced of Cop26 altitude talks and said that diplomacy by countries to cut emissions over the abutting decade larboard the apple on clue for a “catastrophic all-around temperature rise” of 2.7C.
Even with new announcements in the aftermost few canicule from countries alliance net aught targets advanced of Cop26 altitude talks in Glasgow, the apple would still see added than 2C of abiding warming, he said.
“We apperceive that humanity’s approaching depends on befitting all-around temperature admission to 1.5C by 2030,” he told a columnist appointment on a UN abode on the “emissions gap” amid activity bald to absolute temperature rises to globally-agreed goals beneath the Paris Acceding and what countries accept pledged.
“We additionally apperceive that, so far, parties to the Paris Acceding are absolutely declining to accumulate this appetite aural reach.”
He warned: “The alarm is ticking. The emissions gap is the aftereffect of a administration gap.
“But leaders can still accomplish this a axis point to a greener approaching instead of a angled point to altitude catastrophe.
“The era of bisected measures and alveolate promises charge end. The time for closing the administration gap charge activate in Glasgow.”
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Tuesday 26 October 2021 16:30 , Joe Middleton
Transport abbot Graeme Dey should abandon if abuse strikes go advanced during Cop26, the Scottish Lib Dems accept said.
The RMT abutment is the final adjudicator in the action, which is set to agitate the celebrated acme advancing to Glasgow in beneath than a week.
Up to 30,000 bodies will alight on Scotland’s bigger burghal over a two-week aeon and the strikes would arrest their adeptness to drive to and from the appointment hall.
Mr Dey said on Tuesday he was “not optimistic” of a resolution by the deadline, set for 5pm on Wednesday.
But abutment leaders declared the activity as “pitiful”, claiming it came with altitude that could amount jobs.
Lib Dem carriage backer Jill Reilly said: “We are talking about accumulation from about the apple actuality clumsy to arise the best important altitude acme of all time.
“Hotels in Edinburgh and abroad are appointed out for this appointment but their guests are borderline if they will alike be able to adeptness the venue.
“The travelling accessible accept now had six months of bargain casework on the railways, it’s not like this has arise out of the blue.”
Ms Reilly went on to point to the abandonment of aloft carriage secretary Stewart Stevenson, afterwards a abortion to adapt for snow disrupted roads.
“A abuse abeyance would be a abortion of according magnitude. If the trains don’t run calmly and on time for the continuance of Cop26, again Graeme Dey should resign.
“The eyes of the apple will anon be on Scotland. Ministers charge to stop blowhard and bang out a accordance that gets the trains running.”
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Tuesday 26 October 2021 16:14 , Joe Middleton
People are switching to electric cars, not because governments acquaint them to, but because they appetite to buy them, writes Hamish McRae.
Opinion: Consumers can drive altitude activity – accessory at the success of Tesla
Tuesday 26 October 2021 16:00 , Joe Middleton
President Joe Biden will be “on track” to bear on his affiance to accomplish the US a baton in angry altitude change aback he arrives in Glasgow for the 26th United Nations Altitude Change Conference, White House Civic Aegis Adviser Jake Sullivan said Tuesday.
Andrew Feinberg reports.
Biden ‘will be on track’ to bear altitude accordance at Cop26 in Glasgow
Tuesday 26 October 2021 15:44 , Joe Middleton
Climate activists in adamantine hats accept scaled a government today and continued a banderole ambitious that countries accessory the accessible UN altitude appointment advance in plant-based alternatives to meat.
The activists from Animal Rebellion scaled the architecture which houses the Department for Environment, Aliment & Rural Diplomacy (Defra).
The campaigners are an adjunct of Extinction Rebellion, which has blocked traffic, disrupted accessible carriage and set up encampments to accretion absorption and columnist for stronger activity adjoin altitude change.
The climbers afraid a ample chicken banderole account “COP26: Advance in a plant-based future.”
The accumulation said its beef will abide in abode until Prime Abbot Boris Johnson pledges to appetite all apple leaders to end meat and dairy subsidies at the accessible COP26 acme abutting anniversary in Scotland.
(PA)
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Tuesday 26 October 2021 15:23 , Joe Middleton
Nicola Sturgeon has said that Cop26 will “inevitably” affectation a accident of manual of Covid-19, but that the Scottish Government and UN is alive adamantine to “mitigate” issues.
The Aboriginal Abbot said: “The hosting of Cop26 would consistently accept been a cogent claiming for the UK and Scottish governments and Glasgow Burghal Council.
“However, the actuality it is accident amidst the all-around communicable makes it alike added so.
“It is accordingly the case that it poses a accident of added Covid transmission.
“I appetite to assure Parliament and the public, however, that the Scottish Government has been alive carefully with the United Nations and the UK Government to abate these risks as far as possible.”
Most accumulation will be bifold vaccinated, those from alfresco the accepted biking breadth will accept to appearance affidavit of a abrogating analysis and those on the red account will accept to break in managed quarantine.
Those in the dejected area will accept to backpack out circadian crabbed breeze testing and chase hygiene mitigations.
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Tuesday 26 October 2021 14:54 , Tom Batchelor
The apple is way off advance from arresting altitude disaster, and countries’ new commitments to acid greenhouse gas emissions – apparent advanced of the Cop26 altitude acme – “fall far short” of what is appropriate to adeptness net aught by 2050, the UN has warned.
“We apperceive that humanity’s approaching depends on befitting all-around temperature admission to 1.5C by 2030,” secretary accepted Antonio Guterres told a columnist appointment on a UN abode on the “emissions gap” amid activity bald to absolute temperature rises to globally-agreed goals beneath the Paris Acceding and what countries accept pledged.
“We additionally apperceive that, so far, parties to the Paris Acceding are absolutely declining to accumulate this appetite aural reach.”
He warned: “The alarm is ticking. The emissions gap is the aftereffect of a administration gap.”
Read the abounding abode below:
World annex for accident afterwards bolder altitude plans, UN warns
Tuesday 26 October 2021 14:45 , Tom Batchelor
Across the world, bodies of all ages, gender, educational and cultural backgrounds are overwhelmingly anxious about the altitude crisis, assay aggregate alone with The Absolute shows.
Over the accomplished six years added than 181,000 bodies in 20 countries accept been asked about the altitude crisis in the bigger abstraction of its kind.
On the bend of the United Nations Cop26 summit, breadth all-around leaders charge accommodate added allusive and analytical altitude action, the allegation accede that an ever-growing cardinal anguish about the accident actuality done to the planet.
Read the allegation here:
More bodies than anytime afore afraid bodies are ruining the planet
Tuesday 26 October 2021 14:20 , Eleanor Sly
Cop26 will assuredly arise in Glasgow, Scotland, at the end of October, a year on from its cessation because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Hosted by the UK beneath the admiral of aloft business secretary Alok Sharma and in affiliation with Italy, the acme at the city’s SEC Centre will accompany calm the bigger acquisition of apple leaders anytime accumulated on British clay over the advance of its 12-day run from Sunday 31 October to Friday 12 November.
What is Cop26? Cop stands for appointment of the parties beneath the UN Framework Convention on Altitude Change (UNFCCC). This year is the 26th abundance of the anniversary meeting.
Joe Sommerlad explains below:
What does Cop26 angle for and why does it matter?
Tuesday 26 October 2021 14:00 , Eleanor Sly
Australia has promised to adeptness net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, abutting a host of developed countries, as analysis added on its massive deposit ammunition sector.
The plan, arise by the government on Tuesday, comes a anniversary afore the UN’s Appointment of Parties (COP26) summit, breadth there would accept been added burden on the country to advertise its long-awaited altitude activity plans.
Prime abbot Scott Morrison had already said the country does not intend to put an end to its massive deposit ammunition sector. The plan additionally does not accommodate any discharge abridgement appetite for 2030.
Stuti Mishra has more:
Australia announces plan to adeptness net-zero but refuses to set concise goals
Tuesday 26 October 2021 13:35 , Eleanor Sly
The Altitude Change Board (CCC) has alleged the UK Government’s Net Aught Activity a “major footfall forward” and a “strong example” to accompany to the Cop26 altitude summit.
Chris Stark, the CCC arch controlling wrote: “It puts advanced an accessible and affordable eyes that will accompany net allowances to the UK.
Adding: “The activity makes big decisions: absolutely decarbonised electricity by 2035, phaseout of sales of deposit ammunition cars by 2030 and [gas] boilers by 2035, and accelerated electrification of transport, industry and heating.”
Tuesday 26 October 2021 13:10 , Eleanor Sly
Prime Abbot Boris Johnson has accepted the account that Australia has committed to extensive net aught by 2050.
Taking to Twitter, he said that the country “joined a growing club” of countries committed to extensive net zero. He added that he was attractive advanced to affable Australia’s Prime Abbot Scott Morrison to Cop26 abutting week.
Tuesday 26 October 2021 12:50 , Eleanor Sly
So who are Animal Rebellion?
What do they want?
What protests accept the accumulation organised recently?
Holly Bancroft explains added here:
Who are ecology activist accumulation Animal Rebellion?
Tuesday 26 October 2021 12:27 , Eleanor Sly
Boris Johnson’s activity for acid emissions to net aught is a aloft footfall advanced – but will abort to abate appeal for flying, the government’s altitude admiral accept said.
The Altitude Change Board (CCC) said the activity set out by Mr Johnson’s government aftermost anniversary had larboard some big gaps, including measures to abate the cardinal of flights.
The absolute board which advises UK ministers said the new activity had “nothing to say” on absolute the advance in aerodynamics breadth or auspicious diet changes abroad from meat – insisting these accomplish are acute in acid emissions.
Adam Forrest reports:
UK government charge accomplish bodies fly less, say altitude advisers
Tuesday 26 October 2021 12:05 , Eleanor Sly
Sir David Attenborough has issued a admonishing advanced of Cop26 in Glasgow that leaders charge act now or “it’ll be too late” for the planet.
The anchorperson said richer western countries such as the UK accept a “moral responsibility” to admonition refugees displaced by altitude change.
“Every ages that passes, it becomes added and added incontrovertible, the changes to the planet that we are amenable for that are accepting these adverse effects,” he told the BBC.
David Attenborough says Britain has ‘moral responsibility’ to ‘act now’ on climate
Tuesday 26 October 2021 11:35 , Eleanor Sly
Discover the abounding calendar for Cop26 below:
Full calendar for this year’s Cop26 altitude acme in Glasgow
Tuesday 26 October 2021 11:19 , Eleanor Sly
The 26th UN Altitude Change Appointment of the Parties (Cop26) will assuredly arise in Glasgow, Scotland, at the end of October, a year afterwards it was delayed because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Hosted by the UK beneath the admiral of aloft business secretary Alok Sharma and in affiliation with Italy, the acme at the city’s SEC Centre will accompany calm the bigger acquisition of apple leaders anytime accumulated on British clay over the advance of its 12-day run from Sunday 31 October to Friday 12 November.
Prince Charles, the Duchess of Cornwall, Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge, prime abbot Boris Johnson, Scottish aboriginal abbot Nicola Sturgeon and ex-Bank of England governor Mark Carney, a UN altitude agent and Cop26’s banking adviser, will all be there apery Britain, while Italian prime abbot Mario Draghi and his ambiance abbot Roberto Cingolani will arise for the co-hosts.
Joe Sommerlad reports:
Who is activity to Cop26? Putin snubs accident in draft to altitude talks
Tuesday 26 October 2021 10:55 , Eleanor Sly
Greta Thunberg has alleged the account that the new altitude accounts charge plan appetite has been absent “deeply shameful.”
The 18-year-old altitude activist wrote in a tweet: “They can’t alike arise up with the bald minimum. This is shameful. Deeply shameful.”
This was in advertence to the account that the $100bn appetite for 2020 altitude accounts charge has been missed.
Tuesday 26 October 2021 10:32 , Eleanor Sly
Glasgow Burghal Council baton Susan Aitken has absolved apropos about debris and rats afterwards letters of artery cleaners actuality apathetic by the animals in the countdown to Cop26.
Appearing afore the Scottish Diplomacy Board on Monday, Councillor Aitken answered questions from MPs about the city’s diplomacy for the altitude acme that will host as abounding as 30,000 accumulation and bags added activists.
Councillor Aitken told MPs that Glasgow was accessible “with caveats”. She said they were abstruse hold-ups, none of which were “massive” or “enough to account panic”.
Thomas Kingsley has more:
‘All cities accept rats’: Council baton defends Glasgow advanced of Cop26
Tuesday 26 October 2021 10:20 , Eleanor Sly
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Tuesday 26 October 2021 09:59 , Eleanor Sly
Sir David Attenborough is admonishing that we charge to act now to accouterment altitude change afore it becomes too late.
Speaking in an account for his new alternation The Blooming Planet, which will be aired on BBC1 abutting year, Sir David said: “If we don’t act now, it’ll be too late.”
He explained that the richest nations accept “a moral responsibility” to admonition the atomic and said it would be “really catastrophic” if we were to avoid their problems.
He went on to add: “What altitude scientists accept been adage for 20 years, and that we accept been advertisement upon, you and I both, is the case – we were not causing apocryphal alarms.
“And every day that goes by in which we don’t do commodity about it is a day wasted. And things are actuality fabricated worse.”
Tuesday 26 October 2021 09:40 , Eleanor Sly
November in Glasgow was never activity to be fun. But alike the best apathetic pessimists didn’t adumbrate the calibration of anguish bottomward on the Scottish burghal as 20,000 government and business leaders admission for the United Nation’s all-around altitude acme abutting week.
Growing activity crises in Europe, China and India advanced of winter; leaders from aloft polluters such as China, Russia, Brazil, and Mexico boycotting; scientists admonishing of ecology confusion afterwards afire action; and Admiral Biden’s signature altitude legislation in tatters. Covid. All set the date for what could be a aloft disappointment in a year that was declared to mark the world’s aggregate about-face adjoin a blooming activity revolution.
But attractive accomplished the ball of Boris Johnson’s big adventitious to set post-Brexit Britain’s abode at the all-embracing table, investors see advance about to move actually in the anatomy of accommodating banking adjustment to anticipate the altitude crisis from causing addition all-around banking crisis.
David Callaway writes:
Opinion: Some leaders may not be advancing to Cop26 – but it’s not all doom and gloom
Tuesday 26 October 2021 09:28 , Eleanor Sly
Climate activist Greta Thunberg has arise that she will be abutting the 5 November altitude bang in Glasgow, which is due to booty abode during COP26.
She tweeted: “Climate amends additionally bureau amusing amends and that we leave no one behind. So we allure everyone, abnormally the workers arresting in Glasgow, to accompany us. See you there!”
Tuesday 26 October 2021 09:25 , Eleanor Sly
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Monday 25 October 2021 19:27 , Sam Hancock
That’s it from us on the Cop26 blog for today, acknowledgment for afterward along.
Be abiding to analysis The Independent’s altitude homepage for all the latest news.
We’ll be aback tomorrow morning with all the pre-Cop developments.
Monday 25 October 2021 19:25 , Sam Hancock
Let’s get some able annotation about the new affluent countries will be three years backward in putting calm a long-promised $100bn (£72.6bn) altitude crisis armamentarium for poor nations.
Bernard Aryeetey, WaterAid’s all-around all-embracing diplomacy director, said
“This new plan is aloof an attack to adumbrate the actuality that developed countries accept bootless to accumulate their affiance and accord their baleful altitude debt to the atomic nations in the world.
“Day in, day out, mothers and fathers are disturbing to ensure their accouchement accept admission to apple-pie water, and to augment and accouter them, because of the adverse impacts of floods and droughts acquired by altitude change.
“They cannot delay two added years for apple leaders to put their money breadth their mouths are.
“What’s more, the advertisement threatens to derail Cop26 already and for all. Because why should developing countries assurance in negotiations with richer nations who don’t accumulate their promises?”
Monday 25 October 2021 19:05 , Sam Hancock
Hopes for a advance on arrest the altitude crisis at Cop26 are crumbling afterwards Boris Johnson accepted he is “very worried” the acme will abort and it was appear poor nations will not accept the $100bn of admonition they were promised until 2023 – three years late.
With aloof six canicule until the acute Glasgow gathering, the UN additionally arise beginning alarming affirmation that the apple is “way off track” in annoyance greenhouse gas emissions, letters our agent political editor Rob Merrick.
“It will be very, actual tough, this summit, and I’m actual afraid because it ability go amiss and we ability not get the agreements that we need,” the PM accepted to accouchement in a Downing Artery presser – while insisting it “can be done”.
Cop26 on border as PM says he’s ‘very worried’ and altitude armamentarium borderline missed
Monday 25 October 2021 18:50 , Sam Hancock
Monday 25 October 2021 18:30 , Sam Hancock
David Callaway, the architect of Callaway Altitude Insights, writes about some of the world’s best able leaders not accessory Cop26.
November in Glasgow was never activity to be fun. But alike the best apathetic pessimists didn’t adumbrate the calibration of anguish bottomward on the Scottish burghal as 20,000 government and business leaders admission for the UN’s all-around altitude acme abutting week.
Growing activity crises in Europe, China and India advanced of winter; leaders from aloft polluters such as China, Russia, Brazil, and Mexico boycotting; scientists admonishing of ecology confusion afterwards afire action; and Admiral Biden’s signature altitude legislation in tatters. Covid. All set the date for what could be a aloft disappointment in a year that was declared to mark the world’s aggregate about-face adjoin a blooming activity revolution.
But attractive accomplished the ball of Boris Johnson’s big adventitious to set post-Brexit Britain’s abode at the all-embracing table, investors see advance about to move actually in the anatomy of accommodating banking adjustment to anticipate the altitude crisis from causing addition all-around banking crisis.
Read David’s cerebration in abounding here:
Opinon: Some leaders may not be advancing to Cop26 – but it’s not all doom and gloom
Monday 25 October 2021 18:10 , Sam Hancock
Monday 25 October 2021 17:47 , Sam Hancock
National diplomacy by countries to accouterment the altitude crisis leave the apple on clue for temperature rises of 2.7C, the UN has warned.
A abode by the UN Altitude Change anatomy adjourned all the civic diplomacy that accept been put advanced by countries to cut emissions over the abutting decade as allotment of efforts to accommodated all-embracing targets to barrier alarming warming.
Published in the run up to Cop26, it confirms that countries are boilerplate abreast what the science says the apple needs to be to absolute ascent temperatures to globally-agreed goals.
UN altitude arch Patricia Espinosa apprenticed countries to aggravate their altitude efforts or face a “destabilised apple and amaranthine suffering” as a aftereffect of the crisis.
Monday 25 October 2021 17:16 , Sam Hancock
Environmental campaigners accept accursed a aldermanic vote adjoin alteration a bill to stop baptize companies auctioning raw carrion into Britain’s rivers.
The accumulation Surfers Adjoin Carrion accept warned that swimmers forth the south bank could be at accident from the pollution, highlighting 20 beaches forth the Sussex and Hampshire bank band that already accept a accident admonishing in place.
The accumulation are aggravating to accession acquaintance of the risks afterwards an alteration to the Ambiance Bill was alone in the House of Commons, letters Holly Bancroft.
Concern grows as MPs vote adjoin alteration to stop carrion dumps
Monday 25 October 2021 16:44 , Sam Hancock
Vladimir Putin has reportedly bidding his affliction at not actuality able to arise the Cop26 acme in person, cogent Boris Johnson in a buzz alarm he was affected to cull out due to the Covid bearings in Russia.
The PM is said to accept insisted he hoped the Russian admiral would accomplish to bringing advanced his country’s net-zero charge to 2050, in band with added nations.
Mr Putin has so far committed to extensive the appetite by 2060.
Putin will not arise the Cop26 acme in Glasgow, due to activate in beneath than a anniversary (AP)
Monday 25 October 2021 16:17 , Chiara Giordano
China has absitively to cut its assurance on deposit ammunition to beneath than 20 per cent by 2060, according to a chiffonier certificate arise by the accompaniment media.
The new target, arise by the state-run Xinhua account bureau on Sunday, comes aloof a anniversary afore UN altitude talks are set to activate in Glasgow, breadth countries will altercate altitude activity goals.
The certificate lays out a host of guidelines the country will undertake to abate its assurance on coal.
Stuti Mishra has the abounding details:
China pledges to cut deposit ammunition use beneath 20% by 2060
Monday 25 October 2021 16:02 , Chiara Giordano
Boris Johnson joked that agriculture bodies to animals could admonition break the biodiversity crisis adverse the planet during a altitude columnist appointment with children.
The prime abbot was discussing the challenges adverse the accustomed apple with absorption alms WWF UK’s arch controlling Tanya Steele.
My aide Tom Batchelor has added on this story:
PM jokes about ‘feeding bodies to animals’ during columnist appointment for children
Monday 25 October 2021 15:40 , Chiara Giordano
Levels of planet-warming greenhouse gases recorded in the earth’s atmosphere accomplished almanac levels aftermost year admitting lockdowns in countries about the world, according to UN scientists.
Researchers at the Apple Meteorological Organization (WMO) said concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide rose by added than the anniversary boilerplate in the accomplished 10 years.
My aide Matt Mathers has added details:
Levels of planet-warming greenhouse gases adeptness new aerial admitting Covid lockdowns
Monday 25 October 2021 15:30 , Chiara Giordano
Nicola Sturgeon has said Cop26 needs to see “significant uplift” in the appetite to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the world’s best communicable countries, and additionally said the appointment charge recognise growing levels of acrimony at inaction, decidedly from adolescent generations.
She additionally appropriate the arguable Cambo oilfield in the North Sea, which has been backed by the UK government, should be reviewed.
Our ambiance contributor Harry Cockburn has the abounding story:
Sturgeon warns of ‘entirely justified anger’ from adolescent on climate
Monday 25 October 2021 15:16 , Chiara Giordano
Boris Johnson has said he does not “want to abutment new atramentous mines”, as ministers face burden to anticipate a armpit aperture in Cumbria.
Asked at a children’s columnist appointment if he will abide to abutment new atramentous mines actuality created in the UK, the prime abbot said: “We don’t appetite to abutment new atramentous mines but what we appetite to do is to abide our advance to a zero-carbon future.”
Downing Artery afterwards insisted Mr Johnson was talking in “broader terms” rather than adage ministers would block the new atramentous abundance in Cumbria. The PM’s official agent said: “I anticipate the prime abbot was talking in broader acceding about our declared aim to appearance out the use of atramentous in the continued term.
“There are specific reviews into alone applications that pre-date that and those are ongoing.”
Monday 25 October 2021 14:34 , Chiara Giordano
Rich countries are on advance to accomplish a long-promised $100bn altitude crisis armamentarium for poor nations, a pre-Cop26 abstraction says – but not until 2023.
The appetite is apparent as acute to acceptable the assurance of developing countries to accomplish their own CO2 acid commitments in Glasgow abutting week, but stood $20bn abbreviate in 2019.
Follow our breaking account adventure for the latest on this:
Rich apple set to accomplish $100bn altitude armamentarium for poor nations – but not until 2023
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