‘No more time to waste,’ chair of House climate panel warns ahead of Cop26

Democrat Kathy Castor warns that even Biden's ambitious Build Back Better bill doesn't really get us to net zero by 2050'

The alarm bells are ringing. A code red has been declared. With no less than the future of the planet at stake, Kathy Castor, chair of the select committee on the climate crisis, has warned Democrats that there is precious little time left to enact the US president's aggressive climate agenda and avert the most catastrophic impacts of global warming.

We just don't have any more time to waste," the Florida congresswoman said in an interview with the Guardian ahead of crucial UN climate talks in Scotland. We have got to act now or else we're condemning our children and future generations to a really horrendous time."