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Day eight at the Glasgow summit focuses on loss, adaptation and damage
- Cop26: what’s still to be resolved in the week ahead
- Cop26 week one in review
- Cop26 legitimacy questioned as groups excluded from crucial talks
Alok Sharma and the heads of the UN subsidiary bodies have been addressing the plenary about the progress of negotiations at COP26. The updates are largely technical and amount to a lengthy to-do list for ministers, who will arrive in Glasgow later this week to try to thrash out details that technical teams cannot reconcile.
Today’s first big event at the People’s Summit is calling out nature based solutions (NBS) – a buzz phrase at Cop26 pushed as the silver bullet to solving the climate crisis and biodiversity crisis with little pain for people in the global north. NBS include the massive forestation commitments, which made headlines at Cop last week, and the expansion of hydroelectric power – both of which activists here say will have devastating impacts on biodiversity, food sovereignty and human rights.
