COP26: Climate deals to achieve net zero carbon emissions? Possible but very hard


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With US climate tsar John Kerry in Shanghai this week for climate talks, and preparations afoot for President Joe Biden ’s virtual climate summit next week, the scent of the 26th UN climate change conference, better known as COP26, to be held in Glasgow in November, is already strong in the air. With seven months to go before COP26, opinions on what may be achieved range across a huge spectrum, from excited optimism to wrist-slitting gloom. Data on progress since the 2015 Paris accord is, to say the least, confusing, as are prognoses about what we will achieve in Glasgow....