Boris Johnson's advisers may push for a virtual Cop26. He should ignore them | Fiona Harvey
Above all, a virtual Cop would be a safe Cop, and not just in terms of Covid. The drama of some previous Cops has been disastrous. The shambolic end to Cop15 in Copenhagen in 2009, when Barack Obama strove to salvage a last-minute deal from scenes of chaos, has left deep scars. Because the UNFCCC requires consensus, a handful of wrecking nations can wreak havoc. At the last Cop, in Madrid in 2019, Brazil held the rest of the world to ransom, refusing to sign up to new carbon rules. For these reasons, a rising chorus of voices within Whitehall is calling for a virtual Cop26, in place of the me...
Source: theguardian.com