"Last Chance...": Indian-Origin UK Climate Chief's Warning Ahead Of Summit
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Alok Sharma said that a meeting hosted by Britain later this year is the world's last chance to get a grip on climate change.
Alok Sharma, the UK minister in charge of the COP26 climate summit talks in Glasgow in November, on Sunday warned that the meeting hosted by Britain later this year is the world's last chance to get a grip on climate change. The Indian-origin Cabinet minister, who is the President-designate of the United Nations Climate Change Conference or COP26 in Glasgow in November, said in an interview that the world would face a climate catastrophe unless urgent action is agreed this year. He also defended his recent hectic travel agenda, which came under some media criticism for his ministerial exemption from COVID-19 self-isolation rules on return from red list countries. "You're seeing on a daily basis what is happening across the world. Last year was the hottest on record, the last decade the hottest decade on record," he told the "Observer" newspaper.More Related News