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Of talks, there are questions over how much can be achieved. with world leaders soon to arrive, all eyes will be on whether cop26 will succeed. rebecca morelle, bbc news, glasgow. we can speak now to a climate scientist at national microphone of the publicjet propulsion laboratory. thank you very much forjoining us. we are embarking on 12 days of no doubt very difficult negotiation to achieve something up the end of it and it will be a compromise of sorts. what chance of it being much cop?— so...

With world leaders soon to arrive, all eyes will be on whether cop26 will succeed. rebecca morelle, bbc news, glasgow. earlier i spoke to peter kalmus, whos worked as a climate scientist at nasasjet propulsion laboratory and associate project scientist uclas joint institute for regional earth systems science and engineering. what chance of it being much cop? this is the 26th conference and i think we have had a real wake—up call this summer, so this is a little bit different than the previous ...

Central to these talks is a vital number — 1.5 degrees. if temperatures go above this, we move into dangerous territory. the world, though, is already 1.1 degrees above preindustrial levels, and were seeing the impacts of that right now. but even if every country does what its promising, were on course for 2.7 degrees by the end of the century. activists are demanding more action now, led by greta thunberg, mobbed as she arrived in glasgow, but she says theres still hope. if we cant keep the g...

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If we cant keep the global average temperature rise to below1.5, then we do 1.6, then 1.7 and so on. we can always prevent things from getting worse. its never too late to do as much as we can. as the meeting gets under way, protesters say the time to tackle climate change is now. but after nearly three decades of talks, there are questions over how much can be achieved. with world leaders soon to arrive, all eyes will be on whether cop26 will succeed. rebecca morelle, bbc news, glasgow. well, a...

To arrive, all eyes will be on whether cop26 will succeed. rebecca morelle, bbc news, glasgow. as the flavour of the challenge there but already we have had a taste of the problems as well because as the worlds richest nations, the g20, have been gathering in rome and the leaders there were accused of failing to make the commitment needed. the british prime minister borisjohnson admitted minister boris johnson admitted the minister borisjohnson admitted the pledges there were too vague and not e...

Now, after i suppose very nearly 50 years of trying to raise awareness of the growing climate and environmental crisis, im at last sensing a change in attitudes. when cop26 begins in glasgow tomorrow, quite literally its the last—chance saloon. as the diplomatic caravan moves from romes streets to scottish streets, borisjohnson still has a lot of arm twisting to do. do you like roma? i love rome. in glasgow, nobody is under estimating that challenge ahead. as we were telling you, the world met...

Celsius target alive, emissions need to half within the next decade and to reach net zero where the worlds taking out as much carbon from the atmosphere as it is putting into it by the middle of the century. the 200 countries being represented here at cop26 are being asked for their specific plans to meet that goal. the success of this conference will be based partly on countries willingness to outdo each other when it comes to emission reduction. the uks own net zero strategy has been widely pr...

Current and future generations, reinforcing, frankly, the need for urgent action now. well, helen mountford �*s vice president for climate and economics at the world resources institute and spoke to my college christian fraser was at the cop26 in glasgow about the devastating impact of climate change. we have been seeing this, flood events, fire, wiping out communities and towns. we are seeing that already at 1.1 celsius was a people get so much worse for each action of a degree we go up and t...

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