sharon george, what would you like to hear from the conference next week?ave seen failures to meet pledges and i would like to see more cooperation. it isn't a level playing field and that is the whole point this conference to get that cooperation in place and _ it is good to see the amount of investment pledged but this time that pledge needs to be withheld and we need to see countries that need that help to break the reliance on coal and fossil fuels to happen much quicker because every single molecule of c02 and methane and other greenhouse gases going into the atmosphere today are going to keep having that cumulative effect and build up so there is no time to lose. how much of a key moment is this? a us appeals court has temporarily blocked presidentjoe biden�*s plans for a vaccine mandate for businesses. the law would require workers at private companies with more than 100 employees to get fully vaccinated against covid—19 or be tested weekly. a sharp upturn in infections due to the delta variant and a slowdown in vaccinations have pushed governments a

i took that issue up with sharon george from keele university.limate change research. we are already atjust over one degree of average global warming which has increased byjust over one degree already so you can imagine that another a degrees to 1.5 degrees is not very far to go, but we still see impacts of climate change that we are seeing already, floods and droughts and continued sea—level rise and with two degrees, effectively it gets worse. including looking at it from how many people are exposed to things like flood and drought and high temperatures and so there is a significant difference between 1.5 degrees and two degrees and i think it's very important that we look at that, people who are affected by that, mostly people from poorer countries from the global south than only as a temperature or impacts on natural causes, on what is going on in the environment. sharon george, from what you have heard of the conference so far, is limiting the temperature increase to 1.5 celsius still an attainable goal? i'm quite sceptical about this. it is

dr sharon george is the director of environmental sustainability and green technology at the universityint of cop26? de thing these are real, tangible achievements so far? there is some optimism of their but everyone is making the right noises but we have heard these noises before and we have had pledges before and we have had pledges before about investment and investment help those countries that need to accelerate the most. it is a massive ask, and we are asking countries that depend on fossil fuels for their economies to massively change whole infrastructures. this is going to require huge investment. i was hoping to see a bit more cooperation on the detail of that to sort of seek tangible action, and i suppose thatis seek tangible action, and i suppose that is what i am hoping will come out of next week. so at the moment, it is a mixed picture and i'm hoping next week will firm up some of those messages into action.— next week will firm up some of those messages into action. when you hear those commitments, _ messages into action. when you hear those commitments, for _ messages int