UK risks ending Cop26 presidency in disarray over Truss climate policy

In her Tory party conference speech, Liz Truss described environment groups as part of an ‘anti-growth coalition’ she vowed to vanquish. Photograph: Isabel Infantes/EPA

The UK is in danger of ending its presidency of the UN climate talks next month in disunity and disarray, amid cabinet rifts on green policy, and confusion over who will attend the Cop27 summit.

Rows over climate policy threaten to hamper the UK’s ability to hold together the fragile coalition of developed and developing countries it built at the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow last year. Failure to do so will not only cast a pall over the UK’s achievements there, but will add further tensions to already troubled global climate talks.