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COP26: Postpone, virtual, or as you were?

Richard Black, ECIU

23 March 2020 • 6 min read

With the planet reeling from Covid-19, whether or not to go ahead with the critical UN climate summit in November is no easy decision, says ECIU's Richard Black

In today's straitened times, there could surely be no more logical piece of news about COP26, the UN climate summit taking place in Glasgow in November, than that the government was thinking of postponing...

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