“Operhaps the greatest ur ability to come together to stop or limit damage to the world’s environment will be test of how far we can act as a world community,” said a former prime minister, and there are no truer words as we advance towards the opening of COP26.
The importance of COP26, at a time of dangerously rising emissions, cannot be understated. This was emphasised over the summer by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It warned that under all emissions scenarios, both Paris agreement targets of keeping the rise in global temperatures below 2C and 1.5C will be broken this century unless huge cuts in carbon take place.