Why this year’s COP26 isn’t going to deliver

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The Bangkok Post

‘The world is on a catastrophic pathway to 2.7°C of heating,” said UN Secretary General António Guterres. “There is a high risk of failure of COP26.” That’s the global climate summit that meets every five years (but was postponed last year because of the pandemic) to plot a course away from climate disaster. And it really isn’t looking good. COP26 officially starts tomorrow in Glasgow with over 100 world leaders and 25,000 delegates in attendance, but much that should already have happened has not happened. The draft texts that are normally negotiated before such meetings are only half-done du…