No more social distancing almost all Coronavirus Restrictions are now lifted in scotland; though Nicola Sturgeon warns the Pandemic Isnt over. Belarus President Lukashenko calls britain Americas Lapdog after the Foreign Office imposes economic sanctions on belarus for the first time since his disputed re Election And Team gb s athletes have landed back in the uk, after one of their most successful Olympic Games with a haul of 65 medals. A Code Red for humanity thats how the biggest ever report on Climate Change is being described by the un secretary general. The study, produced by hundreds of the worlds top scientists and signed off by all the worlds governments, says its unequivocal that Human Activities are responsible for global warming. The report describes an overheating world slipping into crisis with more Weather Extremes and rising temperatures in the coming years. The governments climate co Ordinator Alok Sharma says the report is a stark warning about the need to cut emission
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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