the end of coal is in sight. that s the word from the government here in the uk, where world powers have been meeting at the cop26 climate conference. it comes after more than a0 countries promised to phase out coal in the coming decades. poland, vietnam and chile are among the fast growing economies which now say they ll reduce their coal use. but as our science correspondent rebecca morelle reports, other big users of coal such china and the us haven t signed up to the deal. a dinosaur on the loose at the united nations, but with a message for humanity. listen up, people, i know a thing or two about extinction. going extinct is a bad thing. if we want to save our planet and ourselves, we ll need to stop climate change, but to do that fossil fuels will have to become a thing of the past. today at the climate conference, the talk is all about energy, and top of the list is phasing out coal. this fossil fuel is the biggest single contributor to climate change, and more than a0
the end of coal is in sight, that s the word from the government here in the uk, where world powers have been meeting at the cop26 climate conference. it comes after more than a0 countries promised to phase out coal in the coming decades. poland, vietnam and chile are among the fast growing economies which now say they ll reduce their coal use. but as our science correspondent rebecca morelle reports, other big users of coal, such china and the us, haven t signed up to the deal. a dinosaur on the loose at the united nations, but with a message for humanity. listen up, people, i know a thing or two about extinction. going extinct is a bad thing. if we want to save our planet and ourselves, we ll need to stop climate change, but to do that fossil fuels will have to become a thing of the past. today at the climate conference, the talk is all about energy, and top of the list is phasing out coal. this fossil fuel is the biggest single contributor to climate change, and more tha
and dubbed the next david attenborough, a conservationist kid meets one of his biggest heros. hello and welcome to bbc news. teachers are calling for more children in england to be urgently given free school meals in order to support families struggling with the cost of living. they say the programme should be expanded to include all families who receive universal credit. in a letter to ministers, uniions are warning that more than two and a half million children live in households that miss meals or struggle to access healthy food and insist now is the right moment to act. alice key reports. lunch is served at this half term holiday club in stockport. staff here are responsible for keeping 20 children a day fed and entertained. but as rising prices start to hit parents pockets, there are fears that without more support, children could go hungry. we know that a lot of the families who come here are living in food poverty. and have certainly been impacted since the cost o