and going into cop 26 that need to change rapidly. we need something that matches the scale of the crisis. in the labour party has said that for example we meet £30 billion of investment in debtjobs for the future creating 400,000 jobs for the future. it is that sort of ambition that we need. not sound bites that are not backed up by action. the young swedish activist greta thunberg says she now hopes to attend the cop26 summit in glasgow if all the delegates are vaccinated. she also said the world must take heed of the dire report by the u.n. climate panel. this report does not tell us what to do and it does not say you have to do this and then do this it does not provide us with such solutions or say that you need to do this, and that is up to us. we are the ones who need to take the decisions and we are the ones who need to be brave and ask
then the more that we can make these decisions in a positive manner. here s a controversial question coming up, rosie, let me put this to you. on the back of the latest report, douglas in lithgow asks should the british government now stop further expansion of airports and stop hs2, which is destroying green fields and forests? thank you for the question. the point around airports first, people may be aware that taking a flight is one of the quickest ways to release a huge amount of carbon into the atmosphere, and certainly on an individual level, this is one of the big ticket items. and i think when it comes to individual projects around airport expansion, what we need to sort of take a step back and think really carefully about is what kind of message are these decisions sending out? so, regardless of the sort of individual pluses and minuses of projects, are we sending out a message that, you know, not only can we carry on with high carbon emitting
the difficult questions to ourselves, like what we value, are we ready to take action to make sure of our future and present living conditions? let s get more on this and speak to professor corinne le quere, royal society research professor of climate change science at university of east anglia. she is a member of the uk committee on climate change and has been involved with two previous ipcc assessment reports. good afternoon professor. good afternoon- good afternoon professor. good afternoon. people good afternoon professor. good afternoon. people listening - good afternoon professor. good afternoon. people listening to i good afternoon professor. good | afternoon. people listening to all of these conflicts afternoon. people listening to all of these conflicts this afternoon. people listening to all of these conflicts this afternoon | of these conflicts this afternoon and reading some of them at points, would they be forgiven for thinking, having scientists then telling us th
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make those stronger, then we won t meet that target. political attitudes are changing. the uk is getting electric cars, for instance. we need clean technology for home heating, too. in the words of one leading scientist, we re not doomed, but if we want to avoid catastrophe, we have to drastically cut emissions now. roger harrabin, bbc news. the man in charge of the cop26 climate conference has welcomed the un report. alok sharma warned that many countries still weren t doing enough to limit the effects of global warming on the planet. i think what we have seen from the ipcc today is a report which paints in very stark terms why this is going to be the decisive decade in terms of climate action being taken by all countries across the world.