G7 spending billions on fossil fuels isn’t the way to ‘build back better’
This post is by Dr Ruth Valerio, Tearfund’s global advocacy and influencing director.
As the host of both the G7 Leaders’ Summit this weekend and the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow later this year, the UK has the opportunity and the mandate to show climate leadership. G7 countries’ pledges to ‘build back better’ from the pandemic were a welcome signal, but our new report shows that this once in a generation opportunity has not yet been taken.
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This post is by Shaun Spiers, executive director at Green Alliance and Thomas Hale, associate professor in global public policy at the 
It is nearly ten years since my book 
There’s nothing quite like reshuffle day to get the politicos amongst us out of bed in the morning – in the words of Pamela from Gavin and Stacey: “
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The COP26 UN climate conference opens in Glasgow in just under nine months’ time. That really is not much time, and the conference matters deeply. In a relatively trivial sense, it matters to the UK’s reputation. More seriously, it matters to the planet: the world is on a path to catastrophic global heating and COP26 is conceivably our best chance to get it under control. 