I worry a little bit that sometimes that transparency argument can be used as one that puts all the responsibility back people as consumers. There is a really strong roll for an enabling policy framework that makes it much easier for people then, to make the right choice. The most important thing if you live in dem acy is to vote. And here's a blunt fact, american youth are much more pro a climate change than older people, but they vote much less. If they had voted in the same proportion as older people in 20 16, we'd have never had donald trump or America pulling out of paris agreement. We're all connected, and that's how people should try and effect
What now for the world? Governments have reached a climate deal which gets us closer to holding temperatures rises to 1.5C. But a last-ditch effort from India and China to water down pledges to phase out coal has led some to consider COP26 a failure. Yes, COP26 could have achieved more but is this agreement one that could potentially be seen as a strong foundation on which the world can build for the future?
To debate the motion we heard from Bim Afolami, MP for Hitchin and Harpenden and Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Renewable and Sustainable Energy; Clover Hogan, climate activist, researcher on eco-anxiety and the founding Executive Director of Force of Nature; Caroline Lucas, former leader of the Green Party and MP for Brighton Pavilion; and Adair Turner, Chair of the Energy Transitions Commission.
Chair for this week's debate was Helen Czerski, one of the UK’s most popular science presenters.
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