Wildly swinging weather extremes over recent years underline the urgency of a landmark deal to avert catastrophic global heating, yet Cop26 was in trouble before it started.
Boycotted by China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin, leaders of two of the world’s largest polluters, the omens are not promising when both set 2060 rather than 2050 as a target for net emissions and China’s will continue to worsen for another nine years.
The unity lacking on an issue screaming out for international co-operation is no excuse for other countries such as Britain not to take a lead and go green.
Costs are unavoidable when limiting temperature growth to 1.5% or below is a matter of life and death, the cost of doing nothing the most expensive option of them all.
Boost our odds
WHEN Covid infection rates are frighteningly high and could climb higher this winter, vaccinations are keeping down hospital admissions and deaths.
The pandemic is far from over but the protection of jabs is swinging the odds in our favour, so getting booster shots into arms as soon as possible is of critical importance.
The Government, NHS and pharmacies have a major role to play but each of us must also take personal responsibility and, rather than waiting to be asked, go out and seek a third jab if eligible.
Ministers could help by reducing the wait for everybody, not just the vulnerable.Complacency is the enemy of good health.
National Pride
MAKE sure you’re in front of the TV or press the record button for 8pm on Thursday when the Daily Mirror’s Pride of Britain awards will be screened on ITV1.
We guarantee it will be the most engrossing two hours of television this year, as you laugh and cry over the heroic, deeply moving stories of the extraordinary people who make ours the best country in the world.
