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back of a g 20 summit that was lukewarm on commitments. i'm the clock in glasgow where the british prime minister has put the challenges here in the stock. his terms, he said that if these it talks fail, the fight against climate change fails. also this hour the will passes. 5000000 recorded cubic 19 deaths less than 2 years after the pandemic was declared. a nearly 400 people disembarked from a ship that is at the center of a migration disputes between greece and turkey. and i'm leah harding. here with all of your sports, including the houston astros, he stayed alive in the world series with victory over the atlanta braves thinking 5 ah, the british prime minister boris johnson is expected to declare that humanity has

run down the clock on climate change long enough. and it's now or never in taking action. mister johnston is hosting a round 130 world leaders in the scottish city of glasgow for the 26th conference of the party is referred to as cop 26. what notable perhaps though, are the absentees. they include shifting ping president to be top polluting, country china and the russian leader vladimir putin. our environment editor nick clark is in glasgow with full coverage as cop 26 gets underway. nick over to you? yes, thanks please. our welcome to glasgow. this is it to the you and climate conference after 2 years. it finally gets underway. world leaders have been arriving in their droves. we will hear from every single nation on earth who will be as delivering national statements over the next couple of days. made object of the exercise, of course, a simple task of stopping temperatures rising beyond what a half degrees celsius it is. in fact,

a monumental challenge. we're already at 1 point, one degrees celsius, nearly 1.2. it is a highly ambitious goal, a given the global commitments to try and pull back emissions so far. yesterday, we had a rather lukewarm g 20 communique, acknowledging that one and a half degrees go. but no more than that, no real haft into how they were going to go about it. all right, so let's get to it. we can speak now to our diplomatic editor, jay's bases right off the plane from rome, covering her that's g 20 summit. what was your sense there of how people were thinking about kaufman the chances of success when it clearly was the tops subject and supposed to be the top subject, but what they actually achieved when you look at the communicate the word to the communicator. serious disappointment from some of those involved. now, antonio terrorist, the 2nd general, the united nations, it's the un conference here in glasgow. in fact, he's a greeting leaders as well as we speak with the host boris johnson. he said at the

start of the g. 20. that all roads to glasgow lead through rome. now i was on the plane with him. when he flew from rome to garza, he was assailing to me. not said anything publicly apart from a tweet, but his tweet was this. i leave rome with my hopes unfulfilled, but at least they are not buried. and i spoke to officials from the you and from others who said that they were disappointed, although they said it could have been worse. but they didn't like the that the, the amount of ambition in the language in the communique. and of course, we haven't really seen some of the individual g. 20 countries make some of those commitments that people have been hoping for. and they have to step up with the course next to it. i wonder how diplomatic relations outside of the climate arena will affect negotiations within it because it is pretty fraught internationally, right? i think it is a factor. it's always a factor, and i think it was a factor at the g. 20, i think, was also a big factor and were told the reason was coven 19?

was the fact that we didn't have all the g 20 there in person? when you have people around the table, you can bang heads together when they're on a zoom call from their capital city, it's harder, and they're actually only 14 around the table. and 6 joining remotely, those remote ones included china and russia. and i'm also told by one participant, because of who was there and who wasn't there. it felt like a very western meeting. south africa, for example, present south africa participated remotely. and they think that might have been a factor. i was also told that the dynamics around the g 20 table a very different from they were where they were a couple of years ago when the trump administration was in charge of washington. because everyone on climate was ganged up against the americans. it was 19 against one i'm told now because you don't have that obvious target who's on a different page from everyone else, that there are more divisions around the table and sometimes it feels like 13 against 6 right. is be very interesting observing how the language has changed as

we've built up to this conference is all about managing expectations now. and in fact, managing them down. so this was supposed to be the make or break conference that was going to save the planet. there was no plan b. now i'm hearing lots of people saying, well, we're making good progress and this is the start and it's only an incremental progress in a process. so yes, our managing expectations, i think is definitely what 2nd place or i james, thanks for that to jasmine is out of the mac editor. thank you very much at well, one leader who will not be present as the chinese premier. she aging ping, china course, a crucial part of the the whole jigsaw in resolving this planetary issue. it is the at sec biggest submitted, well biggest with russia, se 2727 percent of emissions come from china. let's bring to katrina you. who's in raging for us now? katrina shipping not here, but he will be issuing a statement. do you know what is likely to say hi nick. it's so unclear what that statement is likely to sail though,

because he's not an appearing in person. he's not even appearing on a video link. hopes of very laura, those going to announce anything new. he might repeat some of the statements he made during the g 20 o on. during his speech there on sunday, he said that developed countries need to take the lead and assist developing countries in achieving their goals. he stressed also the importance of international bodies and technology in the world, achieving its renewable energy targets. he also just generally repeated china's commitments and those umbrella commitments are very well known that it will peak. it's carbon emissions by 2030 and achieve cover neutrality by 2060. so we are waiting to hear whether he will elaborate on that. give us any new targets or simply just repeat what we have heard so far. oh china still of course katrina repeatedly reliance on coal. are they promised not to build new coal fired power stations outside the china. but what's the story

within it? that's rides or china itself, or is responsible for more than a quarter of the world's emissions. and a lot of that is called because coal is providing 60 percent of the country's power supply here in china. now, earlier this year, president, she didn't being pledged to peak the use of coal by 2025. but many analysts that we've spoken to say that is simply not soon enough. and at the moment, china is also in the middle of a big power crisis. there is not enough coal to go around heading into winter, and so many cities have experienced blackouts. factories have been having to stop their operations, and that's how that a devastating impact on productivity. and as a result, we've seen china actually pledge to push for more building of coal fired power plants a few dozen more in the next few years in order to meet that shortfall as well as

increase the imports of coal. so that's bad news, but there is a silver lining to all of this and that is because of this power shortage. time has actually changed the way it uses cold. this is a plant economy. previously there was a cap on the price of coal and there was that was why, really it was such an appealing source of energy here in china. on october 12, the government said that that cap would no longer apply, so they're very slowly liberalizing the market. and that hopefully means that renewable energy will become more appealing and more competitive going into the future. and that's also good because china has played by 2030, that it will raise wind and solar capacity by 1200 gigawatts. and just to get some context, one gigawatt here in china supplies 1000000 chinese households. so that's all positive. however, we have spoken to environmental who say, look, the problem is not china's direction, it's moving in the right direction. the problem is getting to china to speed up

achieving those targets more quickly. they say that china simply needs to peak at covered emissions before 2030, if there would be any hope of the world. keeping to that $1.00 degree temperature rise before the end of the century. and at the moment it's simply not committing to doing that. all right, katrina, thanks for that to be everybody. he'll be watching very closely at to see what the chinese premier has to say as they take on the battle of climate change in china. well, here in glasgow, joining me is abdulla shaheed, who's the un general assembly president at mister shaheed. you're not any president to the un general assembly, but you're also a foreign minister of the mold eaves. it's a country dangerously threatened by sea level rise. tell us what this fight against climate change means to you. and your country in the world is we have been talking about climate change since 1987. and we started talking about it when nor the countries were talking about it because it's

a low lying as small items. it be felt the forces of nature, stop and take away at the beaches and the effects of climate change. our president and these it in been co. the commonwealth had sofa government meeting in 1987 and we have not stopped about talking about it. we have been able to bring all the small island countries together in alliance that as of small island states. because for us, small islanders, this is in existence ill for it. the are in the frontline, but they did not contribute to this. a massive ver disaster. and the collectively a want to keep on raising this a loyce of alarm, but forgive me for jumping a bit, your racy of his voice villamore as you say, you have been doing that for, for some years now for some decades. but is the rest of the world listening all the big emitters,

listening from earth summit in 1992 in rio to now there are some progress has made but not to of expectations. the won't more done. oh, because a for us does know a plan b, i does not limit b, and this is about to be heaven. v v. collectively be able to survive only if a countries listen, the u. k. prime minister bars johnson and the court president alex our been planed on expectations and we've already been discussing here it. is it your sense that the talks are going to fail here? i think it's not going to fail, but dr. young, we are going to get some progress made, but we will not be able to get the expectations met. okay, well abdullah, thank you very much for joining us. is great to have you with us here, and i will see you every course. the next for doctors abdullah shaheed foreign

minister of the motifs and un general assembly as president. now let's take a look at the 2 ends of the scale of the global emissions. china emits more greenhouse gases and all developing countries combined. more than $14000000000.00 tons of carbon dioxide, methane and other gases pumped into the at each year. overall, china accounts for around 27 percent of global emissions, followed by the u. s. india, the e u and indonesia, the u. s. and europe have been the worse polluters historically on the other side of the spectrum of newton and serenity are which are not only carbon neutral, they're also carbon negative. well, let's him out from liberia mc hack has been to one rubia. it is deep in liberia as guinea in forest region that samuel dory comes to mourn his friends inside these coffins is maria. the farmer grieves the pasture. renee, the village shopkeeper, the cause of their death, samuel says,

is the nearby rubber plantation of the tire manufacturing company firestone, a long hill? it started with a cough. he says, doorway accuses the company of toys and the water. they used for drinking, informing odd if i houston, which is cook and robert bringing air and water pollution. i'm feeling hurt. these are my citizens, it was, i am very angry. i keep saying it over and over the government doesn't care about yesterday since revenue, you see the destruction our below. this is not supernatural. we will all destruction from debt to water was the government knows of firestone is exploiting only a 5th of the 10000 square kilometer land concession, but it is expanding as the 99 year government lease was renewed in 2005. the company is clearing large parts of liberia, skinny and forest reaching home to wear species of animals like the pick me hippo in western chimps. their habitat is under threat environmental as say the rivers

are contaminated with heavy metals, killing aquatic life. al. this is supposed to be the lungs of west africa, but right here in the firestone concession, the air is thick with chemicals. it stings the eyes. now in the statement firestone says it's doing all it can to mitigate the effect of climate change. and it is thinking to the current librarian laws to protect the environment. liberal rents at the bottom of the environmental performance index with researcher, saying that the country is behind its regional peers, particularly in protecting the biodiversity, ensuring habitat conservation, and preventing climate change. who are poor, little who are all of the industrial, were reflected, who have the, the grid up potential to destroy our, if it is not us. and then when you make a report and think that we are doing less, what are you doing you another more as well. cyber is poor and indebted government has given almost half the country's land in concession stewed,

multinational companies in order to repay its debt to international creditors. these companies are exploiting the countries rich natural resources and displacing tens of thousands of people in the process most are making the country's capital their home. faced with this influx authorities aren't able to manage the expanding slums in clear, the mounting waste with a capital barely one meter both sea level. the rising ocean is now destroying their homes. for liberians. there is no escape from the effect of climate change. doorway sees in this coffins a reminder for future generations of what caused his friends death at all, and the pollution that can no longer be ignored or destroying the lives of so many nicholas hawk al jazeera and by monrovia well from a country that came a bottom of the environment, performance index to the greenest country in the world,

not as denmark his journal make thanks very much. well, it's a, i think, a well known scientific fact. i think it is any way that the world's greatest countries are always the world sunniest countries. and so it is with denmark, number one on the p, i the environmental protection index that measures 180 countries across on performance indicators from pollution to renewable energy to other climate change policies. this is a city copenhagen, where we are now. that leads the cycle revolution, almost half of all danes. it's believe cycle to work with a city where you can take, you'll recycle your tins and recycle them in machines on the street. and they'll give you a little cash deposit back for your trouble. and it plans copenhagen to be the world's 1st carbon neutral city by 2025 and actually less than 4 years time. and i'm standing on a rooftop of building housing, state of green, a private public, not for profit organization that seeks to promote denmark's green solutions abroad

. and the green transition generally. and i'm here talking to eva hoya nielsen, who's a key figure in state of green. thanks very much for joining us even briefly, if you will tell me how denmark get to be the number one greenest country in the world. well, it's been 50 s in the making. old us started out in the winter 7374 . when we had the big oil prices in the world, denmark, we're importing 99 percent of our energy at the time. so it was really something that hit us really hot. so what the political world, it was out of that consensus that we must do something about that to be independent of what comes from the job site. so what happened was that we have that interview agreements and ever since that and we have the programs that host promotes

a green solutions. and that means that today we have leading power within the energy efficiency. and also within the when 6 of course, we have less than 50 as you be working on these policy. yeah. as a result of an old crisis, ironically though you're still a big old produce as you can count all of these green credentials. but there is that slight sticking fly in the one, but if you like, you want to big old producer. how do you square that? so well, we are up, but we are facing out of the island. the stop after they are crisis, but we're facing that out and we're focusing really on renewables from now on. so we don't have that much all in the north sea and we are running out of it. and we want to go for more in them in the north sea. so now we will be focusing on renewable energy from now on and see if we can be independent by

2050. even your particular field is 14 partnerships with you. another thing nicely on terms of coming up with the green transition ideas and solutions we've just been hearing from liberia, what sort of solutions to have to offer for the developing world particularly? well, what we can do is they can learn from, 1st of all, from our experiences, also the back once but, but we have the solutions and if we can set up partnerships there, where we can use the technologies that we have found out about and set them into the country in, in a partnership with the developing countries and the company, the private sector also in the developing countries. we can go far away and get this up on an a scale that is really important for the developing world. wonderful people who nielson. thank you so much for speaking to us and from the width and when wet and windy, greenness country in the world,

denmark no less interested mind you and the outcome of those talks had come up to 26 than anyone else back to you. thanks jen. i think we got the same weather system here in scotland, jehovah in denmark. now in recent years we've seen more more young people rising up against a climate change and demanding action from their lead as it is of course, understandable. they're the ones who are gonna have to face the future world and observe, spoke to some young climate activists. here's what they had to say. hi i'm and like i said off, i'm 11 years old and i live in grove out india. there was a huge flood. we're villagers in villagers. there were washed away so so many of the vehicles and houses were destroyed. so people are dying because of climate change. i think people my age, they are being heard by the government and by adults do. so i think young people

like me, they're using social media. do you know, raise awareness and contribute for her? hello. my name is marissa pull. i saw them came. i'm a high school student. my grandparents told me this, it used to be land with a large community where it was a prosperous community with lots of merchant boots from many countries, hong kong. but as time passed and the land has eroded, bad people have had to move further inland from when my family used to live right here next to the temple. but we have had to move from my name is another. i'm 1st senior souls and i live in argentina, bilateral. i think young people are not being listened enough by adults. and i also think that a young people need help from adults when it comes to changing some bad habits. i

would tell the word slithers about climate change and tell them that we should warn everyone and remind them constantly of the big problem. this is my name is maya. i am 10 years old and i live in london the times now to make big changes and improvements to what we do normally to actually control climate change . we're running out of time when to do it now. otherwise you probably never will. we have no planet b, and this is our home. so you wouldn't take care of it because we're kind of stuck here forever. so if it's light trash, then what are we gonna do? then? my name is sped malcolm mussa. i am 12 years old. i live in abu jack the capital of named you yeah. in my state of origin which is kind of yeah, the serious case of climate change, leg, throats and flood, which is affect your food reduction. the adults are the one class in problems by building factories pollutant air and it is

a very helpful my message to the world leaders hold in this meeting. is that any decision the mid day would affect my to morrow? i hope they'll make a decision. dallas saved the world's future, the next generation is consonant them and the youth movement, a big part of the whole climate activism, grass roots push to get things done here at cope $26.00, we'll be hearing more from them as in march in thousands next weekend. next stop today, 12 o'clock, it's the high level opening and segment when we'll hear from forest johnson, the italian prime minister, mary druggie. at the you instruct you, general and tony could terrace. she lives with her make many thanks. al jazeera to day celebrating its 25th anniversary. what launched as an arabic language, satellite news channel in 1996 from doha, is now a global network with several outlets in many languages and to 0 has been

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