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Climate change: Impossible to limit rise in temperatures if COP26 summit fails - as MPs say UK has set out little detail on goals
The UK government has set out little detail on what it wants to achieve during COP26, amid concerns that it may be impossible to limit the rise in Earth s temperature if the climate summit fails.
That is the warning from the Foreign Affairs Committee in its report, A Climate For Ambition: Diplomatic Preparations For COP26.
The report described the summit, to be held in Glasgow in November, as the most significant UN climate summit since 2015, when the Paris Agreement was negotiated.
Updated: 18 Apr 2021, 11:58
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THE Indian coronavirus variant is of “high concern” after cases doubled in a week but there is “no evidence” it can beat vaccines, a minister has said.
George Eustice, the environment secretary, stressed that the government would proceed “with caution” as the country emerges from lockdown.
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George Eustice, the environment secretary stressed that the government would proceed “with caution” as the Indian variant of Covid spreads
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A health worker takes a swab sample of a resident for a Covid-19 coronavirus test at a medical centre in Dharavi in MumbaiCredit: AFP
The strain is behind a surge in hospitalisations and deaths in India - though the country is not currently on the government s travel red list and officials have not yet labelled it a variant of concern .
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UK cases of Indian Covid variant DOUBLE in a week to 160 raising fears it could delay roadmap
Updated: Apr 18 2021, 6:39 ET
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UK cases of the Indian Covid variant have reportedly DOUBLED in a week raising fears its emergence could delay the roadmap to recovery.
Professor Paul Hunter, an epidemiologist at the University of East Anglia, discovered the number of confirmed cases had risen from 79 to 160.
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Environment Secretary George Eustice says there is no evidence the Indian variant is able to get around vaccinesCredit: Getty
And it s feared - as only around a quarter of identified cases undergo tests to identify individual strains - the true figure could be at least 400.
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