China and US announce agreement to cooperate at Cop26 – as it happened

On day 10 of the conference China's climate spokesman said the countries would work together to enhance climate action'

• China and the US announce plan to work together on cutting emissions
• Cop26 draft calls for tougher emissions pledges by next year

This morning youth activists including Greta Thunberg filed a petition to the UN secretary general, Antonio Guterres, demanding that the UN declare a global level 3 emergency", the highest level available.

If one were declared, it would allow more resources and technical expertise to be directed to countries which have been hit hardest by climate breakdown.

[Capitalism] has always gained pace through the incessant commodification of everything, beginning with land, labour and technology before spreading to genetically modified organisms, and even a woman's womb or an asteroid. As capitalism's realm spread, price-less goods turned into pricey commodities. The owners of the machinery and the land necessary for the commodification of goods profited, while everyone else progressed from the wretchedness of the 19th century working class to the soothing fantasies of mindless petit-bourgeois consumerism.