The Latest Breaking News from COP26

International Women’s Day: Meet some of the women leading the fight against climate change in London

The Standard takes a look at key figures in the capital’s fight for a greener future

Evening Standard · Mar 8, 2022

Sustainability skills programme for small businesses launched in wake of COP26

Small Business Britain and Oxford Brookes Business School have developed the new programme, after their joint research showed a huge appetite among small businesses to reduce carbon emissions, but that key barriers are preventing many from taking action.

Wales Online · Feb 28, 2022

Man threatened to blow up COP26 politicians and 'make a dent in Glasgow'

Paul Roberts stole a security pass and gained repeated access to a Scottish Government building and other sites across the city, claiming to be employed by the Ministry of Defence. The court heard he was "testing Glasgow's response to a security breach".

Glasgow Live · Feb 24, 2022

What next after COP26? Gas crisis shadows the road from Glasgow to Sharm el-Sheikh

Energy price rises may work against climate leaders in delivering the green policies in time for COP27 in Egypt

Financial Times · Feb 12, 2022

The great climate backslide: How governments are regressing worldwide

At the conclusion of COP26 in November, summit chairman Alok Sharma praised the “heroic efforts” by nations showing they can rise above their differences and unite to tackle climate change, an outcome he said “the world had come to doubt.”

Tribune News Service · Feb 12, 2022

Data | Men dominate climate talks at COP summits

Since the first COP summit in 1995, India has sent four all-male delegations

The Hindu · Feb 4, 2022

Cairo, Washington to Coordinate over Egypt's Hosting of COP27

Cairo and Washington expressed on Thursday a desire to cooperate ahead of the 27th session of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP27), expected to be held in Sharm El Sheikh at the end of the year. During a telephone call, Egyptian Environment Minister Yasmine Fouad and US Special Presidential Envoy…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Jan 28, 2022

An energy revolution is possible – but only if leaders get imaginative about how to fund it

Limiting climate change will require an unprecedented global movement to make low-carbon technologies the norm. COP26 – the UN climate conference held last November in Glasgow – showed that unfortunately, the world is far from ready for such a movement. Many leaders still assume that reducing emissions and growing their…

The Conversation · Jan 19, 2022

Green minister branded 'Hollywood diva' after demanding she didn’t want to work every day at COP26

Lorna Slater is believed to have told Scottish Government officials she didn't want them to arrange more than "two things in one day".

Daily Record · Jan 17, 2022