The countdown to Cop26: can world leaders save the planet?

Three weeks from today leaders will gather in Glasgow for the Cop26 climate summit. But will their individual pledges to reduce emissions carry enough weight to avert the growing threat of catastrophic global heating?Next month, government officials from every country in the world will gather in Glasgow for the Cop26 climate conference to agree not on how to avert global heating (it's too late for that) but to try to find ways to limit the damage that we're living with, and that our children will live with.The conference, delayed by a year because of Covid, is the first chance since leaders met in Paris in 2015 to hammer out an agreement on how their countries can limit emissions. Continue reading...