Most scientists agree that the world has only until the end of this decade to take action and prevent a global catastrophe, Photo: shutterstock The world’s activists and delegates getting ready to travel to Scotland for the COP26 event, starting October 31, realise more than most of the exceptionally high stakes. Running until November 12, the conference is being deemed one of the world’s last chances to keep the average global temperature from rising less than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and thus averting planetary heating on an unknown scale. It has been a trying time for UK leaders as the event approaches. In terms of the summit itself, companies that stumped up millions of US dollars to sponsor COP26 have condemned it as “mismanaged” and “very last minute”. The sponsors, which include some of Britain’s biggest companies, have raised formal complaints of “very inexperienced” civil servants for delayed decisions, as well as poor communication between the … [Read more...] about Civilisation at stake in most important climate talks yet
