With the leaders of a few of the world’s most polluting international locations – the US, China and India – set to skip it, is the COP local weather convention irrelevant?
The occasion in Brazil subsequent week marks three many years of target-setting and monetary pledges – but temperatures are nonetheless rising and so are emissions.
Were all these guarantees a load of sizzling air? Have desires of internet zero gone up in smoke?
Niall is joined by our science and know-how editor Tom Clarke who’s on the summit.
Producer: Araminta Parker
Editor: Mike Bovill
