UN climate summit in November last chance, warns UK's Indian-origin climate chief
12 Aug 2021
The UK minister in charge of the COP26 climate summit talks in Glasgow in November, warned that the meeting hosted by Britain later this year is the world's last chance to get a grip on climate change. The Indian-origin Cabinet minister, who is the President-designate of the United Nations Climate Change Conference or COP26 in Glasgow in November, said in an interview that the world would face a climate catastrophe unless urgent action is agreed this year. He also defended his recent hectic travel agenda, which came under some media criticism for his ministerial exemption from COVID-19 self-isolation rules on return from red list countries. You are seeing on a daily basis what is happening across the world. Last year was the hottest on record,the last decade the hottest decade on record," he told the Observer newspaper.I don't think we are out of time but I think we are getting dangerously close to when we might be out of time, he said. On his own travel, the minister said he was simply throwing everything at achieving a global consensus ahead of the talks in Glasgow.
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