Alok Sharma

An aerial view of the former Woodhouse Colliery site where West Cumbria Mining (WCM) have been given approval to once again extract coal. Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Why UK coal mine decision is worst kind of climate vandalism and hypocrisy

The United Nations climate summit COP27 has been branded a failure with regard to efforts to tackle the causes of climate but the establishment of a fund for loss and damage. to developing countries suffering the worst effects of climate change -- like Pakistan, which was hit this year by deadly flooding -- has been welcomed. Photo: Zahid Hussain/AP

COP27 fails to tackle warming causes but scores 'payback' for worst-hit nations

Scottish Secretary Alister Jack is understood to have been nominated for a peerage.

Boris Johnson nominates Alister Jack for peerage

Businessman and academic Lord Adair Turner, chair of the Energy Transitions Commission think tank, has cut his consumption of red meat and is currently getting heat pump technology installed in his Hampshire cottage to reduce his personal climate impacts

COP27: How the world's appetite for meat is eating up forests

A villager in Kenya fetching water; Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia are currently suffering from the worst drought in 40 years

Time to make the top polluters pay

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is now going to COP27. Picture: AFP via Getty Images

Sunak announces he will go to COP27 in Egypt in U-turn

Rishi Sunak arrives for a speech at the COP26

Rishi Sunak's attitude to COP27 doesn't inspire confidence - Richard Dixon

Rishi Sunak has come under pressure for saying he won't attend COP27. Picture: James Hardisty

Analysis: Sunak could attend COP27 as reaction more persuasive than climate

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (centre), alongside the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, (centre right) holds his first Cabinet meeting in London. Picture: Stefan Rousseau - WPA Pool/Getty Images

Sunak urged to expand windfall tax as Shell’s profits soar

COP26 president Alok Sharma will hand over the baton to COP27 president-designate H E Sameh Shoukry, Egypt's minister of foreign affairs, when the summit gets under way next month. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

COP27: One month to go before UN climate summit in Egypt

Omar Shaikh, managing director of the Global Ethical Finance Initiative.

Finance summit marks COP26 anniversary

Demand for new windfarm turbines has driven ScottishPower to create 1,000 jobs

ScottishPower to hire 1,000 staff amid renewables boom

Dr Niki Vermeulen, Senior Lecturer in History and Sociology of Science, University of Edinburgh

New map provides different perspectives on the value of our coasts - Dr Leslie M...

The COP26 summit was the most polluting event of its kind, with emissions 30 per cent higher than first forecast. Picture: Phil Noble/AFP/Getty

‘Lessons’ to be learned as Glasgow summit proves to be most polluting COP ever

Tangible signs of climate change are increasing around the world (Picture: David McNew/Getty Images)

Global crises must not be used to distract us from need to act on climate change

US special climate envoy John Kerry, seen here at the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow last November, has said Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine and the resulting disruption of oil and gas supplies has not wrecked international emissions goals agreed at the conference. Picture: Getty Images

Ukraine war could speed move to green energy, US climate envoy John Kerry says

A new UN science report is set to send what may be the starkest warning yet about the impacts of climate change on people and the planet.

New UN report set to paint stark picture of impacts of climate change

Planting trees is a way to reduce carbon in the atmosphere, but climate change is leading to more severe storms which blow them down (Picture: Wesley Johnson/PA)

A major factor in climate change that scientists cannot predict – Scotsman says

Jennifer Lawrence plays a scientist in the Netflix film Don't Look Up who discovers a comet that's on a collision course with Earth (Picture: Mike Coppola/Getty Images)

Just Look Up: climate change can never be ignored – Scotsman comment

COP26 president Alok Sharma said "collective self-interest" was a key motivator in getting the "historic" Glasgow Climate Pact over the line and would also help turn promises into action

COP26 president says 'collective self-interest' is key to climate action

COP26 president Alok Sharma is due to appear before the House of Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee to answer questions on delivering outcomes of the UN conference. Picture: Getty Images

COP26 president Alok Sharma to appear before Lords climate change committee

Allegra Stratton has resigned.

Allegra Stratton resigns following leaked video laughing over Christmas party

Staff remove chairs and dismantle one of the stages at COP26.

There may have not been a clear winner at COP26 - but Glasgow was a loser

Alok Sharma, President of the Cop26 climate summit, speaks at the closing plenary of the COP26 summit

Short-term thinking won’t halt climate change - Readers' Letters

Alastair Stewart's family recently waited five-and-a-half hours for an ambulance to arrive to attend to an elderly relative (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

NHS in crisis as we fail to realise we could be a statistic – Alastair Stewart

Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke during a press conference inside the Downing Street Briefing Room on November 14. His conference came after fourteen days of gritty negotiations by 20,000 diplomats from nearly 200 countries and the hopes of salvaging a deal at COP26 boiled down to cash, coal, compensation and the willingness to speed up the drawdown of fossil fuels.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson mistakenly says COP26 was held 'in Edinburgh

Alok Sharma, President of the COP26 climate summit, raises his hands after his speech of the closing plenary, during an 'overun' day of the summit in Glasgow on Saturday. Photo: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Leader - Now the challenge must be to revive 1.5

Britain's President for COP26 Alok Sharma gestures during the final stages of the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow

Readers' letters: Climate conference has not been perfect, but it is a success

The COP26 venue is being dismantled

What will be the COP26 legacy for Glasgow from climate summit?

In a statement, the palace said it was with “great regret” the Queen would be unable to attend the service.

Queen misses Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph in London

Alok Sharma after speaking at the closing plenary of COP26. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

COP26: New ‘Glasgow Climate Pact’ agreed despite weakening of coal phase-out

COP26 President Alok Sharma taking advice before postponing the latest session of the late-running conference today. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

COP26: Alok Sharma vows to end late-running conference 'this afternoon'

A demo inside the Blue Zone

Protesters march through the Blue Zone at COP26

Cop26 President Alok Sharma during the Cop26 summit in Glasgow. Picture date: Thursday November 11, 2021.

COP 26 talks enter final day

Their performance at the 2014 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony in Glasgow alerted the world to Tunnock's Teacakes

COP26 diary: A true Scottish delicacy | Nae drama fae Sharma

Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaking at a press conference during the Cop26 summit at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) in Glasgow.

Boris Johnson to return to COP 26 climate summit this week

Puppet Little Amal visits Action Zone at the Cop26 summit at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) in Glasgow for the opening of the Gender Day event.

Climate action by countries puts world on track for ‘at least 2.4C’ of warming

Gordon Brown speaking at a COP26 discussion on health on Tuesday. Picture: The Scotsman

COP26: Gordon Brown urges ‘final push’ to ensure summit not branded failure

Former US president Barack Obama delivers a speech to delegates during the Cop26 summit at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) in Glasgow.

Barack Obama: World has not done nearly enough to tackle climate crisis

Shameen Prashantham, currently Professor of Strategy at China Europe International School, and formerly of the University of Strathclyde. Picture: Contributed

COP26 is a valuable wake up call to businesses - Shameen Prashantham

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has pledged action on climate change.

Nicola Sturgeon pledges action on climate change in pitch to youth at COP26

Climate change activists wearing masks depicting images of world leaders, including UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, take part in a demonstration near the COP26 venue oin Glasgow on Monday

COP26: Citizens say 'ecocide' is a crime and should be punished

Massive queues built up at the main entrance to the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow as hundreds of people waited to get through security checks before being granted access to the event

Delegates delayed as massive queues build in Glasgow

Delegates arrive in Scotland for the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. Photo: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

Leader - Glasgow Glacier will be the measure of success

Aid cash call: Ed Miliband

COP26: $1bn aid cash is vital to climate change says Ed Miliband

President for COP 26, Alok Sharma, at the opening ceremony at SECC in Glasgow

COP26: Climate target will not halt mass floods warns Sharma

COP26 will dominate Glasgow's riverside over the next fortnight. Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP/Getty

COP26: If Glasgow can learn to reinvent itself, why not the world?

The world needs to put itself on course to become a net-zero carbon economy to avoid dangerous climate change (Picture: Lukas Schulze/Getty Images)

If Glasgow fails, world likely to face dangerous climate change – Scotsman says

Speaking at a United Nations meeting in Paris, Cop26 president Alok Sharma has warned that world leaders must deliver on promises to curb dangerous climate change at the upcoming climate summit in Glasgow

COP26: UK should lead by example in climate action

I-PACE SUVs will be among some 240 Jaguar Land Rover electric cars taking world leaders to the Cop26 conference. Picture: Jaguar Land Rover

Cop26: World leaders' electric cars switch to veg oil due to charger shortage

Alok Sharma, president of the UN Cop26 climate summit, said the world was 'fighting to keep the ambition towards 1.5C alive' (Picture: Sam Jahan/AFP via Getty Images)

SNP and Tories should unite in fight against climate change – Comment

Cop26 'green zone’ to host more than 200 public events. (Picture credit: Jane Barlow/PA Wire)

Cop26 'green zone’ to host more than 200 public events

Livestock farming plays a key role

Soaring gas prices have impacted food production due to shortages of carbon dioxide.

Soaring gas prices fuelling fears of UK meat production 'crisis'

Britain's President for COP26 Alok Sharma (right) accompanies US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi as they walk up Downing Street in London. Picture: Ben Stansall/AFP via Getty Images

COP26: Sharma says China has yet to commit to sending delegation

Alok Sharma stressed the desire for there to be a “whole of UK approach” to the COP26 summit in Glasgow

CoP26: Alok Sharma pledges the global event will involve 'all of UK'

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A computer generated image issued by Transport Scotland of the proposed debris flow shelter

£470m road shelter planned to shield A83 Rest and Be Thankful from landslides

Scottish Labour are predicting 20,000 Scots will die in 2023 while waiting for NHS Treatment.

More than 18,000 Scots died while waiting on NHS treatment, amid private surge

Criticism of the Scottish Government’s stewardship of NHS Scotland, or indeed any area of devolution, is often met with whataboutery from ministers who assure the Scottish public things are just as bad south of the border.

Analysis: Scottish Government can no longer indulge in whataboutery on NHS