No change from the top at Cop

Young protesters in France calling for climate justice as part of a general strike on 5 November In Andy Burnham’s first speech as prime minister, he made a point of saying that he would attend this year’s Cop31 talks. The annual United Nations negotiations on climate change begin this week in Antalya, Turkey. “The climate crisis is not a distant threat,” he said. “It is here and with us now.” But the Labour prime minister has poured more fuel onto the fire since. He has pushed ahead with fossil fuel extraction at Jackdaw in the North Sea after a summer of heatwaves. Scientists have announced that they expect 2026 to be the hottest year on record, due to the combined impacts of El Niño and the heating planet. The previous record was set just two years ago. This year has seen villages washed away and more than a thousand people killed by flooding in Nepal and Tibet. Heavy rains and flooding killed hundreds and impacted 2.36 million people across southern Africa.

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