UK insists Cop26 must be held in person if possible
by Fiona Harvey Environment correspondent from Environment | The Guardian on (#5HTEW)
Alok Sharma is working with health experts and Scottish government on best way for climate summit to go ahead
The UK government is considering how to use Covid-19 vaccines and testing to try to ensure vital UN climate talks this year go ahead in person, rather than as an online event.
Alok Sharma, a former UK business secretary and now president-designate of Cop26, the climate summit to be held in Glasgow this November, said: I have always been very clear that this should be the most inclusive Cop ever. I have been travelling around the world and it is very clear to me that people want to see a physical Cop, in particular developing countries want this to be face to face."
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