So #COP26 #EdinUniCOP26 continues with today’s themes being gender and innovation. I thought I’d tweet on things I noticed over the last 2 days, and more later on today’s developments 1/n
Yesterday’s theme was adaptation, loss and damage and there were *some* announcements and a recognition that prevention is better than loss and that nature and people are vital to climate action 2/n businessgreen.com/news/4039905/l… and bbc.co.uk/news/uk-592021…
But as I listened to indigenous leaders from the Amazon talk about ravages and loss happening to their lands,and the repeated calls from developed nations for more funding for adaptation and ‘ reparations’ (formally ‘loss and damage’)it was hard to feel much progress made 3/n 
George Monbiot spells it our in typically uncompromising fashion here 4/n theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Meanwhile a few articles reflected on progress and the challenges of this week of negotiations 5/n watkinson.fr/#_ftn1 and washingtonpost.com/world/europe/b… and bbc.co.uk/news/science-e… and bbc.co.uk/news/science-e… and bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla… and businessgreen.com/news/4039935/c…
The U.K. Presidency set out its plan and a draft bare bones text but the reality may be very different- justice, adaptation, overall funding, transparency, Article 6 all live issues 6/n unfccc.int/sites/default/… and unfccc.int/sites/default/… and also theguardian.com/environment/20…
Of course Obama was in town but I resisted the urge to join the throng-instead focussed on negotiations yesterday! There are excellent daily summaries of the detail which give you a sense of the realities to bridge the gaps..7/n enb.iisd.org/Glasgow-Climat… and enb.iisd.org/Glasgow-Climat…
This excellent piece reminds us why, in addition to funding developing countries to mitigate, adapt and protect being the right thing to do morally, it’s also economic basic sense 8/n buzzfeednews.com/article/zahrah…
Al Gore was speaking inspirationally according to colleagues 9/n belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/al-gor…
And a few other announcements I noticed and @BusinessGreen reported on 10/n dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-… and cgfi.ac.uk/2021/11/global… and businessgreen.com/news/4039941/n… and businessgreen.com/news/4039913/e…
Meanwhile China insists it is taking major action and Australia rightly comes under pressure for its dismal efforts 11/n theguardian.com/environment/20… and theguardian.com/environment/20…
More on climate finance and what needs to happen 12/n here ft.com/content/2fc039… and here c2es.org/wp-content/upl…
An excellent thread from @tarynfransen on what the pledges all mean 13/n
https://twitter.com/tarynfransen/status/1457119989660454913
An important capacity building development with the launch of the network of climate advisers ( think international equivalents of the @theCCCuk ) 14/n theccc.org.uk/2021/11/01/int…
New index on measuring the ecological performance of cities 15/n weforum.org/agenda/2021/11…
Lots of new electric vehicles charging points on the way in the U.K.! 16/n businessgreen.com/news/4039912/c…
So that’s it for now- we await a view from @climateactiontr on what the new pledges mean- meantime I was struck by the fact that, even if the wall of innovation and new capital does bend the curve of emissions, the raw injustice of climate change is as real as ever 17/n.
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