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Alok Sharma, president of the UN Cop26 climate crisis summit taking place in Glasgow in November, has said that a Biden presidency will be “good news” for the climate. Giving evidence to the Commons business committee, Sharma said:
A Biden presidency is good news in terms of tackling climate change. I very much welcome the commitments the president-elect has already made in terms of rejoining the Paris agreement and putting the US on the path to net zero by 2050.
I’m very positive about the commitments made during the presidential election and we are looking forward to working closely with the new administration.
The government has hired a PR firm to boost vaccine take-up among minority groups amid concerns that Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) and eastern European people are less likely to accept the jab, Arj Singh reports at HuffPost. There is growing concern about so-called “vaccine hesitancy” amongst BAME communities, with a recently published Sage paper (pdf) reporting that 72% of black people say they are unlikely or very unlikely to get vaccinated.
