COP26: What world leaders said today
DrillOrDrop has compiled extracts from some of the 60+ speeches made at the opening day of the World Leaders Summit at COP26 today.
Campaigners celebrate refusal of oil production consent
Opponents of oil operations in the Lincolnshire Wolds were celebrating tonight after councillors refused planning permission for long-term extraction.
Breaking: Councillors refuse 15 years of oil production at Biscathorpe as climate talks get underway
As world leaders in Glasgow pledged this afternoon to cut carbon emissions, councillors 300 miles away blocked plans for long-term onshore oil production in an area of outstanding natural beauty.
Climate camp evicted at proposed Surrey gas drilling site
Campaigners said this morning that a climate camp on land proposed for gas exploration in Surrey had been cleared by bailiffs.
COP26 headlines 1/11/21
President Xi of China will send a written statement to COP26, an official statement said this morning.
COP26 headlines: 31/10/21
On the opening day of the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow, the President Alok Sharma told delegates: “COP26 is our last best hope to keep 1.5 in reach.”
COP26: Campaigners stage ceremony for visiting delegates
Scottish climate campaigners welcomed overseas delegates to the COP26 talks with a Gaelic foot-washing ceremony. Elders of the Minga Indigena attending COP26 from Ecuador were then invited to place their feet on a stone specially carved for the ceremony from Scottish sandstone.
COP26 criticised for excluding delegates from climate front line
UK visa rules and a lack of access to Covid-19 vaccines has stopped some delegates from the front line of climate change attending the COP26 talks, campaigners said today.
COP26: Extreme weather is the new norm as climate crisis pushes world into unchartered territory – new report
Extreme weather, including heatwaves, droughts, floods and wildfires, are the new norm, according to the UN’s World Meteorological Organisation.
COP26: “Young people worried and angry about the future”, Alok Sharma
Young people have every right to be angry about the failure of world leaders to deliver on climate, the president of the COP26 talks said this afternoon.
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