“A stopped train is nothing compared to the two million people displaced by flooding in Shanxi province in China, last month, and those facing famine today in Madagascar.”
Countries are planning production of oil, coal and gas over the next decade at levels that is “dangerously” out of sync with targets to curb climate change, the UN has warned.
It comes as Alok Sharma says securing a climate deal in Glasgow will be "really tough" and could be harder “on lots of levels” than signing the Paris Agreement of 2015.
Heavy downpours in Cumbria could make it difficult for some to reach COP26.
"The Chancellor should be making it cheaper for people to travel around the country by train, not carbon-guzzling planes."
It comes amid a new surge in coronavirus cases in Britain which is more than three-times the infection rate of the EU average.
Patricia Espinosa, the UN's top climate official, warned about the dangers of the Cop26 talks failing.
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Fairtrade's global network of farmers and workers have sent an open letter to world leaders urging them to keep their climate pledges.