Photograph: Karwai Tang/ UK GovernmentCOP26 may not have offered the perfect outcome but its stress on the importance of local communities underlines the need for central government to back council efforts to tackle carbon emissions.
Mark DaviesThe recent COP26 in Glasgow highlighted the huge conflicts of interest that arise in bridging the gap between the causes of climate change and the solutions to climate change.
The COP26 agreement recognises the need for collaboration, best scientific advice, urgency, funding, mitigation, adaptation etc. It underscores the point that climate change is caused by humans and that in order to address it humans will need to make significant changes and quickly.
What resonated in the text of the agreement was
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