COP26 is over: and, no, it wasn’t all ‘blah blah blah’

Martina Juvara spent a week at the COP26 Summit as a representative of the International Society of City and Regional Planners. While there, she posted a series of dispatches for LTT. Here she offers her final summary

So, did COP26, to coin a phrase used by Greta Thunberg to describe the UN climate change conferences, end up being no more than ‘blah blah blah’? Absolutely not! 

On Friday and Saturday last week I was hooked on the live meetings broadcast on the UN climate change platform, and I witnessed the whole drama unfolding. I saw the moment when Alok Sharma offered a heartfelt, and tearful, apology for having to accept a last-minute curve ball – with a commitment to “phase...

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