COP26: UK's £290m pledge and the fossil fuel industry's delegation

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➡️ UK's £290m pledge to help poorer nations ➡️ The fossil fuel industry's delegation ➡️ How the humble battery can help save the world Top COP26 climate conference stories on Monday COP26BBC

While there are representatives from different countries at COP26, there also delegates associated with the fossil fuel industry, emissions from which are causing global warming.

There are more of those delegates - 503 - said to lobby for oil and gas industries than from any single country, according to Global Witness analysis shared with the BBC. It says the "fossil fuel industry has spent decades denying and delaying real action on the climate crisis" and campaigners believe they should be banned. The International Emissions Trading Association argues there is a process of transition under way in line with its goal to find the most efficient market-based means of driving down emissions.A forest in central India is under threat from a new diamond mine.

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What's the point you may as well keep the money if the world's biggest polluters ain't going to do anything what's the point in trying, go protest China

bbclaurak Batteries don't save the world. Heavy metal contents need to be mined, and dead batteries currently have very few 'drop off' points, and mostly end up in landfill, leaking.

That £290m should be used in our country, not others, I pay my taxes for the UK not others…..

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