Could COP26 be further postponed due to COVID-19?
Media reports suggest the United Nations summit could be delayed for a second time if the pandemic situation worsens
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A Scottish official has reportedly suggested the COP26 climate summit could be postponed for a second time if the situation with the COVID-19 pandemic worsens.
The United nations event was initially postponed last year and is now due to be held from 1st November to 12th November at Glasgow’s Scottish Event Campus (SEC).
However, it has been reported in The Scotsman that this scheduling could also be pushed back – it stated National clinical director Professor Jason Leitch said: “I and others have been involved in that. It’s a UK Government-led process, but Scottish public health leaders are in those conversations and there are plans for everything, from cancellation to holding a full COP26 with everything in between, perhaps just the negotiators, perhaps just a virtual even
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The majority of Scots believe indyref2 should come within the next two years THE latest poll on Scottish independence support has found the percentage of people in the country who want to leave the Union is at a record high for a second time. The survey by Savanta ComRes, commissioned on behalf of The Scotsman, also puts the SNP on track for a decisive majority at next year’s Scottish Parliament election. The party could win every constituency seat apart from one, the survey figures reveal. With “don’t knows” removed, support for independence is at 58%, according to the polling company – the same figure was seen in an Ipsos MORI poll back in October. Including the “don’t knows” the poll shows Yes on 52% and No on 38%.
Scottish independence boosted by Gove’s ‘Trumpian’ opposition, claims SNP MP
PA
17 December 2020, 10:54 am
Michael Gove’s “Trumpian” rejection of rising support for Scottish independence will only boost the cause, according to the SNP.
The Cabinet Office minister was compared to US President Donald Trump as he was peppered with questions from SNP MPs about why opinion polls suggest Scots favour independence ahead of remaining in the union.
Responding to SNP Cabinet Office spokesman Pete Wishart’s questions about why independence is the “settled will” of the Scottish people, Mr Gove replied: “Sadly I fear his reliance on opinion polls is no substitute for his aversion to hard arguments.