UK unprepared for COP 26 conference, warn climate leaders

Former UN climate envoy joins list of experts frustrated at Britain's lack of leadershipThe UK is showing a "lack of coherence" in its leadership of vital UN climate crisis talks this year, and giving the damaging impression that the talks are not a high priority, one of the world's leading voices on the climate crisis has said.Mary Robinson, former UN climate envoy and Ireland's first female president, also said the perception that major British politicians, including ex-prime minister David Cameron and former foreign minister William Hague, were unwilling to take on the role of leading the COP 26 summit was damaging. Continue reading...