Alok Sharma is not considering hosting the event online, however. We need to have a physical event. We cannot allow any further delay, he told AFP. We ve already delayed Cop by one year and I m afraid that during that year climate change has not abated. In fact, last year was the hottest year on record, the last decade was the hottest on record.
I have been very clear that I want coal power to be consigned to history
Alok Sharma We are looking at all Covid-secure measures, including vaccines, to deal with this particular issue , he said.
Nations around the world committed under the 2015 Paris accord to keeping the global temperature increase to under 2°C, and ideally closer to 1.5°C, by 2050.
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Scientists want to make a vaccine in 100 days the next time there a new pandemic arises.
But a proposal embraced by drugmakers and the UK government after talks between G7 health ministers this week seeks to cut down the time even further.
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This would involve vaccines and other drugs being partially developed before a new virus emerges.
“The first 100 days in a pandemic are crucial to changing the course of a disease,” said the UK’s chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance.
“Given the extent of the social, economic and health impacts caused by Covid-19, the 100 Days Mission is rightly ambitious and sets a goal for us to which we can all aspire.”
He acknowledged their role in “working as trusted voices within our communities and particularly in Ramadan to ensure vaccine uptake”.
The British Islamic Medical Association (Bima), which was also invited to the summit, said that faith leadership was being “recognised at the highest levels”.
A YouGov poll last month put the UK public at the top of a global table of willingness to become inoculated against Covid-19, with 90 per cent of those questioned saying they would take a vaccine.
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Some vaccine doses have been administered at mosques, including London Central Mosque.