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COP26: ‘Game-changing’ pledges on methane emissions and deforestation
The 120 world leaders who came to Glasgow in a fanfare of hope and big promises are now on their way home, after signing up to some aspirational agreements to halt the destruction of forests and slash methane emissions over the next decade.


Met Police officers admit sharing photos of murdered sisters
Two Metropolitan Police officers have admitted taking photos of the bodies of two murdered sisters and sharing them on WhatsApp.


‘Our main struggle has been protecting Ecuador’s territories from extractivism’, says indigenous people’s advocate
We were joined by Helena Gualinga from the Kichwa people of Sarayaku in Ecuador. 


Train driver suffers ‘life-changing’ injuries in Salisbury crash
A train driver has been left with "life-changing" injuries and 13 others were taken to hospital after two trains collided in Salisbury yesterday evening. 


Barclays boss quits after investigation into links with Epstein
Barclays boss Jes Staley has quit over the initial findings of an invesitgation by the City watchdog into the extent of his links with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. 


It’s ‘bad business lending to Big Energy’, says former Bank of England governor
There is no shortage of dire warnings about the catastrophe facing the planet, but what's really needed are answers.


COP26: Climate activists out in force as Glasgow summit begins
Greta Thunberg has accused the summit delegates of failing to take the crisis seriously enough.


Former UN climate chief ‘confident’ world can achieve ‘big push toward’ 1.5 degree climate goal
Christiana Figueres was the United Nations climate chief at the historic conference in Paris in 2015, where nations first agreed to try to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees.


COP26: Glasgow summit hears passionate calls for action on climate
Enough of burning and drilling and mining - we are digging our own graves: the warning from the UN chief on the first day of this summit could hardly have been starker. 


Prince Charles warns world leaders COP26 is ‘last chance saloon’ to save planet
Prince Charles has warned world leaders that the COP26 climate summit is the "last chance saloon" to save the planet from the effects of climate change.


UN Climate Action Champion says Scottish Secretary’s backing of Cambo oil field ‘flies in the face of the science’
Earlier, inside the COP bubble, I spoke to the UK Government's High Level Climate Action Champion, Nigel Topping. The role was created in 2015 at the climate talks in Paris to help businesses around the world lower carbon emissions and build resilien...


COP26 climate summit begins in Glasgow
As the conference formally began here on the banks of the Clyde, hundreds of passengers hoping to travel to the climate summit by train were stranded after a tree fell on the tracks halting services from London.


Inside COP26’s ‘Blue Zone’
Well our Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson is inside what's known as the Blue Zone, where delegates from nearly 200 countries have been arriving for the two-week summit.


’Woke wars’ inside the National Trust?
National Trust members today got a chance to take part in the so-called culture war against woke-ism.


Environmentalists raise questions about fossil fuel industry’s influence over COP26
Now with the COP26 climate summit starting on Monday in Glasgow, questions have been raised about the fossil fuel industry's influence over the event.



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