ClimateCast with Tom Heap

As the dust settles after the COP26 summit, it's time to examine how far we've come.On this week's episode of Sky News ClimateCast Ashna Hurynag explores the effectiveness of COP26 and examines whether we can deem the “Glasgow Climate Pact” a success.She asks science correspondent Thomas Moore if it’s left us any closer to solving the climate crisis.Veteran environmental campaigner George Monbiot makes his ClimateCast debut with a call to arms. Though he calls Glasgow (and 24.5 other COPs) a failure, he sees hope for the future in the ever growing climate activist movement.And Sepi Golzari-Munro leaves us on a high by highlighting the progress made in Glasgow. The world needs to do more, she says, but with political will, it’s possible.

Ashna Hurynag cancels her train home from Glasgow as COP26 goes into overtime. She's up at the crack of dawn with a spring in her step, but as the day gets longer and longer, her hopes (and mood) dwindles. Did someone say coffee?!

It's the final day of COP26... but is it? Negotiations are continuing right through into the night and into the weekend... it's getting tense! Ashna Hurynag hears all the latest reaction from COP26 attendees - lots of whom stage a huge protest over the latest draft agreement. Plus... it's been a tough, memorable but incredibly enjoyable two weeks - Ashna and producer Emma Rae share their personal highs and lows from the 26th Conference of the Parties in Glasgow.

It's crunch time at COP26, as negotiations reach the final 24 hours. Ashna Hurynag shares a metaphorical can of Scottish pop with climate correspondent Hannah Thomas-Peter as they talk about the details of a draft agreement being drip fed out of negotiating rooms. Plus, there's a rumour circulating that Russia and Mexico will give away their own national delicacies if negotiations end on time. So the ClimateCast team put the crucial draft deal to one side, and get stuck into investigating if this rumour could possibly be true.

COP26 negotiations have been cranked up a notch with announcements flooding in left, right and centre. Ashna Hurynag catches Boris Johnson arriving at Glasgow Central station - where she gets a tour of the UK's first hydrogen train. She speaks to Rosamund Kissi-Debrah, the mum of 9-year-old Ella, who died of air pollution, about why transforming our transport system is essential to solving climate change. Plus, while in Scotland... Ashna tries a Scottish delicacy covered in batter.

Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, arrives in Glasgow and Ashna Hurynag wastes no time asking her how negotiations are going. But she's not the only powerful woman on this episode. We also hear from Chair of the Elders Mary Robinson, indigenous leader Helena from Ecuador and International Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan. Plus as negotiation time is running out, Ashna speaks to Science and Technology editor Tom Clarke, who is sat with a cold tea and soggy teacake.

Week two of COP26 negotiations kick off with a focus on developing nations, which are pleading with the Global North to put their hands in their pockets and offer more support to those on the frontline of climate change. Ashna Hurynag meets representatives from across the world including Tanzania, Kenya, Caribbean, and Fiji. They discuss life back home, their hopes for COP and the accessibility of negotiations. Plus, Barack Obama is in town. Ashna's determined to track him down.

The world has taken to the streets and here in Glasgow Ashna Hurynag explores the warehouse training young people how to get their voices heard. Plus we hear from star Idris Elba and a man dressed as an avocado... but isn't quite sure why.

Ashna Hurynag joins activists on the streets of Glasgow as 10,000 march, chant and protest in one of the biggest and most diverse Fridays for Future marches the climate sphere has ever seen.She hears from two of the UK's most high-profile youth activists, Dominique Palmer and Scarlett Westbrook. As well as young children, their parents and even grandparents who travelled from all across the world to march in Glasgow.Plus original ClimateCast duo Anna Jones and Katerina Vittozzi catch-up on their COP26 highlights so far.

Phasing out fossil fuels has been the talk of the town at COP26. So is the end in sight?On ClimateCast Daily from COP26 Ashna Hurynag speaks to Luisa Neubauer, the German climate activist who sued her own country. Ashna joins her in the middle of a coal protest.With fossil fuels in the bad books, she explores the conference for renewable alternatives and speaks to Polish nuclear enthusiast Jadwiga Najder.Plus, Sepi Golzari-Munro reveals COP26 pledges could have already shrunk the emissions gap, but as Lusia puts it, pledges are great, but action is better.