maximum temperatures of 6—9dc, but the warmest place will be up in the north—west of scotland, 11 degrees here. on into wednesday, we have this area of high pressure gradually drifting towards the east. that's going to allow these weather systems to start to move their way in. so further outbreaks of rain moving into scotland and northern ireland. still the risk of some fog, particularly toward central and eastern areas of england throughout wednesday and again that could linger on into the afternoon. temperatures about 6—8d but again the north—west of scotland, temperatures getting into double figures. bye— bye.

this is worklife from bbc news, with sally bundock and david eades. climate change — or no change? international talks open in spain as the un warns that a "point of no return" is looming. live from london, that's our top story on monday 2nd december. deadly heat—waves, wildfires and flooding — the catastrophic impact of climate change — now the un focuses on our failure to curb fossil fuels. also in the programme: "fear, pain and disappointment" — the words of huawei's financial chief meng wanzhou penned on the first anniversary of her detention. and, why the new boss of consumer goods

firm reckitt benckiser wants to get the company back to being boring. also in the programme the construction industry is one of the highest risk sectors in the uk for insecure, unsafe and underpaid work — according to the government. we have a special report. and in the us online retailers are expecting bumper sales today on cyber monday. we'd like to know are you shopping for a bargain today, or are you over it? let us know what you are up to — just use #bbcworklife. hello and welcome to worklife. a warm welcome to our new business show. we start with the spate of deadly heat waves, wildfires and floodings making calls to fight climate change more urgent. the un climate conference gets underway in madrid today — the cop, or conference of parties will see almost 200 countries attending, as well as

business leaders. the big target from the paris agreement — signed three year ago — aims to limit global temperatures increases to 1.5 degrees celsius above pre—industrial times. the cost is huge — as you can see — advanced economies have agreed to collectively spend $100 billion a year by 2020, largely to help poorer countries invest in renewable energy and technology. the world's biggest polluter is china — responsible for about 27% of co2 emissions. over the last 18 months, it's increased coal—based electricity production which threatens the paris targets. the us is the world's biggest economy and the second biggest carbon emitter. president trump has pulled out of the deal saying it would hurt its economy, but many of america's biggest companies disagree. the un secretary—general antonio guterres said the world's major economies had made "utterly inadequate" efforts to

curb carbon pollution. what is still lacking is political will. political will to put a price on carbon. political will to stop subsidies on fossil fuels. political will to stop building coal power pla nts will to stop building coal power plants from 2020 onwards. political will to shift taxation from income to carbon. taxing pollution instead of people. we simply have to stop digging and drilling, to take advantage of the vast possibilities offered by renewable energy and nature —based solutions. with us now is helen clarkson, chief executive officer, the climate group. thank you forjoining us. antonio guterres spells it out and said we simply have to do this, of course it is proving extremely difficult, governments in particular are finding it tough to move on it.

give us some cause for finding it tough to move on it. give us some cause for optimism because that's a grim picture. yes, it is, the science is very clear, we have to half the missions in the next decade, be on track to net zero by 2015 so we are talking about the 20 20s as the climate decade. everything we do, government, businesses and others is to be thinking now climate centrally and working around that. sorry to interrupt you but if governments aren't moving very fast, and many it feels are not, is it enough to say, let's look at individual cities, business, private sector, they can force the change? it's not enough but actually we need to look at these things very systemically. we run something of the climate group which is a commitment to 100% renewable electricity from some of the world's largest multinationals, over 200 of them, and we are publishing a report today which taps into how they are doing every year and in that we can see a third of them are already at 75% and they set these ambitious targets that creates

innovation within the company and they tend to get there sooner. within the same report they are saying where they cannot do it is because of the structure of markets and lack of government policy and they are calling on governments to do more. but where you see governments responding to businesses and working with them to understand which policies will help them, we did some work in the eu a couple of yea rs did some work in the eu a couple of years ago were businesses we were working within europe helped the eu shape the policy around power purchase agreements, a key way that corporates get renewable energy, and it actually unlocks it. what we need to do is bring these things together and think systemically in order to go as fast as we need to. what was significant about the paris agreement was the fact you had nearly 200 governments represented, we have a similar story in madrid for the next two weeks. but when you've got developing countries who are saying, hang a second, we are developing and we are burning fossil fuels for the foreseeable future because we need to in order to grow, to sustain etc etc, how do you

square that circle? that's actually the design of the paris agreement, to set each country comes forward and says what they can do and allows room for developing countries to grow and that's why they are called nationally determined contributions and the idea is the country sets it self. developed countries like the uk where we are asked to go really far to bring it down because historically we have the most emissions and again it is by bringing everyone together and understanding how these nationally determined contributions add up that we can get there. paris was interesting, huge wave of optimism or back of a global agreement, donald trump has done something to damp on that, but this is different, isn't it? perhaps not the same sense that we will emerge with a brand—new way ahead either. i don't think we will in madrid but the thing that has really changed, another cause for optimism, the school strikes around the world, although everybody is not happy about them, but you are seeing the influence of children on their parents who are decision—makers and if you look at the age of the kids come often in their teens, their parents in their 40s and 50s, in board rooms and

governments responding and we have really seen in our work this bottom—up pick—up goes with the top—down work many of us have been doing for a long time. that is some cause for optimism, the pressure for the first time in the uk elections, people really talking about the climate, that's new. the visibility of the thing, that is new. helen, thank you forjoining us. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news. russia is to supply china with natural gas through its new 3,000—kilometre power of siberia pipeline for the first time on monday. the 30—year, moo—billion deal aims to deliver 38 billion cubic metres of gas a year by 2025. russia forged closer ties with china after the west imposed sanctions on it over its annexation of crimea. the boss of the bank of england mark carney has been appointed united nations special envoy for climate action and finance. mr carney will take up his new post once his term as governor ends on

31 january 2020. the announcement comes ahead of cop25 — the un's annual climate change gathering in madrid. cyber monday could be the biggest day ever for us e—commerce sales, after fewer shoppers visited bricks and mortar shops on black friday. while retail outlets saw visitors dip 3% over thanksgiving and black friday compared with last year, e—shoppers are set to splash out $9.4 billion on monday, 19% more than last year, according to adobe analytics. so, are you one of them, are you going to bag a bargain today? that's a lot of money! have you just had it? he says, speaking with feeling. go on, move on. we hope you will respond and we hope to hear from

you. huawei's finance chief — meng wa nzhou — has penned an emotional letter on the first anniversary of her detention in canada. she said in the past year she has "witnessed moments of fear, pain, disappointment, helplessness, torment and struggle." let's go to our asia business hub where karishma vaswani is following the story. karishma. you can't be surprised about many of those terms, it's been a challenging time. yes, it has been a challenging time. yes, it has been a challenging time according to meng wanzhou certainly command that is what she expressed in the letter she penned and that was subsequently put on the huawei website according to some it has been viewed by 16 million people on chinese social media and is getting a lot of traction. meng wanzhou has said in the letter she has learnt to face up to and accept her situation and adds she is no longer afraid of the unknown. remember david, she was arrested in vancouver a year ago on the request

of us authorities who requested canadian officials to arrest her at the time, put her in detention, because they say she broke us law by helping huawei skirt american sanctions on iran. she denies all wrongdoing and her case will be heard in january wrongdoing and her case will be heard injanuary next wrongdoing and her case will be heard in january next year. wrongdoing and her case will be heard injanuary next year. she is currently out on bail and she has spent most of her detention shuttling between her two luxury homes in vancouver. it is very hard not to draw a sort of parallel or comparison, david, to what has happened to two detained canadian citizens in china, michael kovrig and michael slager who were arrested shortly after meng wanzhou was. the timing was seen as suspicious by many china watchers and was seen as retaliation for canada's actions by beijing, beijing says these men compromise national security but human rights groups say they were arrested as punishment for canada's

arrested as punishment for canada's arrest of meng wanzhou and canadian officials have been lobbying for their release ever since. we wait for the trial injanuary. looking at the financial markets, in asia this week and the new month of december, began on a bright note because news out about the chinese economy, the world's second biggest, was better—than—expected. this was manufacturing data which quelled fears about a slowdown going on in china. let's see how things have been progressing in europe. the first a0 minutes of trade in europe, across the board, gains across europe. there is one stark mover and that's ted baker, its shares down over 1a% in london. this is the retailer that has apparently said todayit retailer that has apparently said today it has overstated its inventory on its balance sheet so perhaps it has more goods that is not being sold and is not flying

off the shelves as people thought commander ted baker shares are down over 1a% in london. sally, thank you very much indeed. now to the us, where the government is set to announce what retaliatory action it will take in response to a digital tax france instituted on american tech companies this year. vivienne nunis in new york has been following the story. injuly this year, the french government run out of patience with an international community it saw as failing to adequately tax the billions in dollars in sales made by google, amazon and facebook overseas. the country's senate approved a 3% levy on revenue earned in france from digital services that's due to come into force on january 1st and will last until an international agreement is reached. the new levy is expected to bring in $550 million a year for france, mostly paid by us tech firms. facebook has such unilateral measures are damaging to the digital economy. while amazon announced 10,000 french businesses selling on the site will be subject to extra fees.

the levy has also upset president donald trump who says us companies should be taxed at home and threatened tariffs on french wine. the united states' trade representative has been investigating france's digital services tax. it will release its finding and announce any possible retaliatory measures on monday. time now for our daily look at some of the newspaper and website stories which have caught our eye. joining me is roni savage, founder and managing director ofjomas associates — an environmental and engineering consultancy. thank you forjoining us. good morning. do you want to kick off? let's look at the guardian, a story you wanted to look at today with uber‘s future in doubt, how else might londoners zip around town? what is the guardian suggesting? that is an interesting article. i myself have been very reliant on uber travelling to and from business meetings and pretty much using

uber for everything really, finding out last week that they had lost their licence was a bit of a shock. but the real surprise actually was that potentially 1a,000 drivers have travelled using fake ids, which obviously worries me knowing i'm fully reliant on uber for myself and for my family. what the guardian has done this morning as identify some other options, which i was quite pleased to see. i didn't know those we re pleased to see. i didn't know those were there. uber have got some competitors. we should throw out a few na m es competitors. we should throw out a few names because some of you will have heard of some of them, probably not all of them. bolt, captain, via van, addison lee, get, 0la, free now, have you heard of any of them? i haven't, i've only used uber once, but i don't live

in central and london so maybe that's why. uber are appealing the transport for london decision and that could take a year, they suggest, don't they? while the appeal process is under way uber can carry on working in london and providing transport. absolutely and to be fair i don't think they are going anywhere. they have been through this process before and it has been extended for months and i think this will be extended and potentially they will be granted their licence at the end of the appeal period. i think what this does is identify some of the competitors they have but also ensures they tighten up the reins in terms of how those services are delivered. uber need to put safety at the forefront of the business strategy rather than making money. you just can't conceive of a big organisation failing to manage in a city like london. it would be catastrophic, wouldn't it? they will have to work it out. not called a disruptorfor no have to work it out. not called a disruptor for no reason. in the

telegraph, this story about the fairly new boss of reckitt benckiser who took over in september. it is a massive company. so many products we use day to day stocked in supermarket shelves that we buy and we are unaware that reckitt benckiser is behind them. he is 52 yea rs benckiser is behind them. he is 52 years old, formerly at pepsico among other companies, he is going to be boring, he says. that got my attention, boringly consistent, it was the term he used. as a business owner myself, in an engineering company, boring isn't a strategy i would put out there but it got my attention and made me dig deep into what his strategy was. why does he think that's the way to go forward with a company the size and influence of reckitt benckiser? the issue was the company's previous ceo, in laxman narasimhan's opinion, had lost control, they had lost focus, there was no focus on

operations any more, so what he's trying to do is bring it back to basics and focusing on investing in technology, investing in research and development and rather thanjust sales and margins, which is what was being done. it should be boring, shouldn't it? i mean, it is boring stuff. it is daily stuff. we want a sense of... to your ex and nurofen. that is what you want, steady as she goes with a business like that. the word boring has been used to grab our attention but it is more being focused. he has restructured the business rather than just focusing on sales, which will end them up in a lot of trouble. we will try and keep tabs on them if it is not too boring. he may not make the headlines, that's the problem!

thank you for coming in. still to come — the construction industry in the uk: gfx)(gfx)is one still to come — the construction industry in the uk: is one of the highest risk sectors for insecure, unsafe and underpaid work — according to the government. we have a special report. you're with worklife from bbc news. today may be cyber monday, but its not the only event in the retail calender. the british fashion awards also kicks off tonight. the fashion rental company my wardrobe hq is urging consumers and influencers to think more about sustainability. its new chairwoman, jane shepherdson joins us now. thank you forjoining us. there is pressure on you because you talk about influences and you are in an influencer environment. the fashion industry is very dependent on

influencers and so we're hoping people will move towards a rental instead of buying now. how are you going to make that happen? we are trying to make it very easy for them. if you browse our website you can find something that you love, designer luxury fashion, and then you can rent it for seven days at a fraction of the price it would cost you. how ready do you think customers are to pick up on this? it isa customers are to pick up on this? it is a nice idea and you can imagine it for maybe big items, a wedding dress or something like that which isa dress or something like that which is a one—off, but day today?” dress or something like that which is a one-off, but day today? i think it will start with occasion wear and weddings. it is very clear that in the us at the moment it has really been adopted and the american version is worth $1 billion. it has been slower in this country because there hasn't been a viable alternative up until now but we are hoping to provide that. you talk about urging influencer is to think

more sustainably. have you got influencers on board in terms of what you are doing? we have come actually. we are addressing 65 influencers tonight for the fashion awards. and really to introduce them, more than anything else, to fashion rental. but they all are very excited about it, and from their point of view, you know, they have a photograph taken of them practically every day and so if they can rent something then it's a lot cheaper than buying it. rental is one thing, vintage is the other big thing at the moment, isn't it? are you in competition? we rent vintage pieces as well as pieces from individual‘s wardrobes and pieces from designer brands. i think it's great that people are looking at other alternatives to buying new clothes and letting them sit in their wardrobes for the rest of their wardrobes for the rest of their lives. jane shepherdson from my their lives. jane shepherdson from my wardrobe h0, thank you.

this is worklife. a reminder of our top story: international talks open in spain as the un warns that a ‘point of no return' is looming when it comes to the issue of climate change. in a moment we'll run through some viewer responses to our twitter question. it is about whether you have had enough of christmas shopping, basically. i know that you have but it's not about david! i haven't got your present so i'd betterfind something. the construction industry is one of the highest risk sectors in the uk for insecure, unsafe and underpaid work — according to the government. the jobs are casual — making it prone to illegal working conditions. so authorities are trying to prevent it. but its a difficult task — as katie prescott has been finding out. it's a familiar scene in this part of east london. early in the morning, groups of men gather outside this diy store waiting to be picked up for building work. it's so well—known

about, it's practically a job centre, and it's a sight that's repeated around the capital. how much do you get paid for a day's work. in the uk, you have to get paid £8.20 an hour to work. as romanians, these men could work illegally, could work legally, but that requires a certain level of english to get a construction worker's card, an official address, passport. when you see people being picked up on the side of the road like this, it's easy to see how a third of construction workers in london report not getting paid. this is the induction pack that we develop with the industry and the main contractors. labour enforcers say it's an industry that is ripe for abuse. people say there is a shortage of labour, but actually what we are seeing is there is a shortage of legal labour and that is where

the risks come in, particularly coupled with the pressures that the industry is under to get a build done on time, and penalties that come with that. when a job is on the line and they need to get it done they are going to call on whatever labour they can to get thejob over the line. the labour abuse authority asking the country wasn't the biggest building firms on well—run sites like this to sign up to a voluntary scheme raising awareness of workers' rights. we have not personally seen those issues within our direct workforce and i think the big thing for us signing up to the protocol is to raise that awareness within the supply chain and make sure that it's not happening further down the chain, not just with our supply chain but with their supply chain as well. pay slips, holiday pay, the minimum wage, they are all basic rights, but the construction industry is one of the worst sectors for not having them in place, and with more than 300,000 building companies in the uk, most of them tiny, it's an incredibly difficult thing to police. many say this scheme doesn't go far enough and

policing is underfunded. the body monitoring 29,000 employment agencies only has 12 members of staff. the man in charge says businesses need to take some responsibility too. the more complex your labour supply chain is the greater the danger of things going wrong in that chain. and so i would encourage anybody to have the simplest, most transparent labour supply chains they can have in order to avoid being in some way complicit in the kind of practices that you've uncovered. the government is currently reviewing how working conditions are enforced. in the meantime, these informal job centres outside building shops continue to thrive. katie prescott, bbc news. at the top of the show, we asked you about us e—retailers expecting bumper sales today on cyber monday — are you shopping for a bargain today, or are you over it? let's take a look at

how some viewers have responded: paul w says: no best time to shop is after xmas. jmg says: most of the people i know don t want any more stuff. charity donations all round. joanne says: i bought a toaster oven on sale for myself. danny has responded, you think i've got some money, you can discount all you like, i am overdrawn. the sad reality for many. joanne says i bought a toaster oven on sale for myself and i will buy gift cards for the kids. dan condon says: i'm looking mainly for bargain tech items as christmas as christmas gifts to myself. hgppy happy christmas to you! a man after my own heart. thank you for your comments and we will see

you soon. monday started on a frosty note across england and wales, temperatures down to minus six celsius first thing this morning. it is going to be quite a cold start to the weak but gradually things will get a little bit milder by the end of the week. in between that we will have some wet and windy weather moving in as well. you can see we have this area of high pressure, the colder air across many areas, towards the far north we can see this orange moving on, some milder air moving into scotland throughout the course of the next few days. and with that some cloudy skies and outbreaks of rain this morning across scotland which will move eastward. quite cloudy for northern ireland, some cloud moving into northern england and wales but further south and east it will remain sunny, temperatures about 5-8dc but remain sunny, temperatures about 5—8dc but in the far north—west of scotla nd 5—8dc but in the far north—west of scotland the mild air pushing on, temperatures about 10 celsius. this evening and tonight, we will see

varying amounts of cloud, probably more cloud compared to last night so not as cold and not as frosty except the far south where we will see the temperatures get down below freezing. they will be some fog developing particularly in the south—east of england, so that could linger into the afternoon during tuesday. elsewhere, there will be sunny spells for england and wales, but always more cloud again for scotla nd but always more cloud again for scotland and northern ireland, but again it is going to be milder here, temperatures in the north—west in double figures. but elsewhere those figures more like around 5—8dc. going into the middle part of the week, the area of high pressure i showed at the start move gradually eastwards, so we will have more of an influence from the west, so this cold front moving and will bring some outbreaks of rain to northern ireland and scotland, pushing eastward. there will be some fog on wednesday morning across central and eastern areas, that will again be fairly stubborn to clear away. some sunny spells will develop around that. temperatures very similar

at around 5—8dc. on into the end of the week, that weather front moves south—eastward, it will break up as it does so, but more atlantic weather systems will start to push in. the white lines, the isobars getting a bit close together so some gales expected in the north—west of scotla nd gales expected in the north—west of scotland and with that some heavy rain pushing on. for much of england and wales, it should remain largely dry, there will be some cloud but sunny spells in eastern areas. temperature starting to come up, 11 or 12 temperature starting to come up, 11 or12 in the temperature starting to come up, 11 or 12 in the scotland and northern ireland, eight or 9 degrees in england and wales. bye—bye.

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news at nine with me, joanna gosling — the headlines a vigilfor the victims of the london bridge attack — the prime minister and the labour leader will be among those honouring jack merritt and saskia jones at a remembrance service in the city. the un secretary—general, antonio guterres, says the world must end its "war against nature" as two weeks of talks on climate change begin in madrid. travel disruption for thousands of rail passengers — as workers on south western railway begin a 27—day strike in a dispute over guards on trains. jeremy corbyn pledges to cut rail fares by a third and give under—16s free travel as part of labour's plan to renationalise the railways. and coming up in the next few minutes — the scottish national party leader nicola sturgeon will be answering your questions live — on independence, brexit and more. captainjoe root rescues england's cricketers in the second test in new zealand — he makes a double century, to leave

them trailing byjust five runs.