it s one minute to midnight on that doomsday clock and we need to act now. you know what climate change is doing to us. i you don t need my pain or my tears to know that we re in a crisis. - methane is one of the gases we can cut fastest. doing that will immediately slow down climate change. in my lifetime, i ve witnessed a terrible decline. in yours, you could and should witness a wonderful recovery. six years ago, at the 21st climate summit in paris the world was on track to warm by up to 4.5 degrees. now, we re on a path to 2.7 degrees, but to avoid the worst ravages of climate change, we need to limit warming even further, and achieving that will necessitate a massive shift in ambition. one man trying to accelerate that change is the uk s high level champion for climate change, nigel topping, and when i spoke to him here at cop26 i asked him why, despite decades of agonisingly slow processes, he s still optimistic. it s not naive optimism, and we are not on track. this is
sportsday will be coming up shortly. . . before that, though.it s time for climate change: countdown to cop26. hello and welcome from the cop26 global climate summit in glasgow. i am christian fraser with the latest in a series of programmes from around the world looking at the issues and challenges of climate change. issues and challenges of climate chan . e. ,, ., , ~ issues and challenges of climate chan i e, ,, ., , ~ , issues and challenges of climate chance. , ~ , , ., change. so, this cop26 must be a moment of change. so, this cop26 must be a moment of solidarity. change. so, this cop26 must be a moment of solidarity. well, - change. so, this cop26 must be a moment of solidarity. well, world i moment of solidarity. well, world leaders, scientists, moment of solidarity. well, world leaders, scientists, climbing, - leaders, scientists, climbing, climate activists and negotiators have spent the week trying to find solutions to this global emergency. let s take a look
of england, speaks to the bbc about the debt right offs, international finance will have to make to obtain net zero. what is needed to get us to 1.5 degrees is companies will have to do notjust say theoretically this is what is going to happen but actually i do have to write off some of those. immense relief as a 11 year old girl, missing in australia for more than a fortnight, is found alive and well. this week, we have been driving less and walking more and also using hand sanitisers. and we ll be talking to one family about the practical changes needed to play a part in the fight against climate change. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to the programme. we begin in glasgow, at the cop26 climate change conference. the british prime minister and host of the cop26 summit, borisjohnson, has said he s cautiously optimistic after some progress has been made by nations trying to find ways to reduce the effects of global warming. he added