#COP26 Glasgow

Mary Robinson, an ex-UN commissioner for human rights who has twice served as a UN climate envoy, used the keynote address of the Sustainability Leaders Forum to reiterate that climate change should be viewed as “climate justice”.

Robinson used her 23-minute speech to praise the work done by corporates to date, but noted that every person and every organisation could do more to respond to the climate crisis.

"This won’t happen without disruption, and disruption comes in many forms,” Robinson said. “This is good and necessary, but we have to see businesses go further. Leaders must speak up for a regulatory framework that ... holds them accountable.”

On the day after Boris Johnson launched #COP26 this article describes a period 300 years ago when Scots suffered dreadfully from Climate extremes but then once the Scots joined with England they never again suffered such harm despite what the climate brought. Stronger together. It's almost ironic that Glasgow will host this year's COP in the same year that Brexit fragments.

An interesting ramble of a speech to launch #COP26 from Boris in the company of Sir David Attenborough in an effort to lend a gravitas and sincerity to his #ClimateChange commitments. A good start but he's a lot of ground to make up. Let's see if he'll reference #ClimateChange in the trade talks with the US. Have a look at his speech here

Claire O Neill the former minister, who was leading efforts to hold the COP gathering of world leaders in Glasgow in November, said the UK was “playing at Oxford United levels when we really need to be Liverpool” in terms of the effort to tackle the climate emergency. #COP26 More HERE from the Guardian