The G7 and a crucial moment for the climate

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The world’s richest democracies will come together in Britain this week with global heating high on the agenda. Can they match big promises with concrete action?

The damage wrought by the coronavirus pandemic has been huge, but it pales in comparison to the potential risks associated with the climate crisis. With the world coalescing around the importance of limiting temperature rises to a maximum of 2C above pre-industrial levels, the next 10 years are the last chance to meet that goal - and with the Cop26 summit in Glasgow later this year, the G7 summit in Cornwall this week is the next staging post in a crucial six months to settle on a way forward.

 

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The climate doesn’t care. Perhaps you mean a crucial moment for people.

4 days until the radical left go into meltdown and Im going to love every minute of it aswel. 😂 Can someone please send me screenshots of Owen Jones's tweets when it happens as he's blocked me.

horrible

And Johnson arrives by jet

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