With planned emissions cuts still far smaller than needed to prevent runaway climate change, turning the promises made at the just-ended Glasgow summit into real-world investment within a year will be the mark of its success, analysts said Monday.
Britain ¡ª which hosted the COP26 U.N. climate conference and will lead work through to the 2022 gathering in Egypt ¡ª must now team up with activists and green-minded businesses to shift plans and maintain pressure on laggard countries, they said.
That could include everything from expanding a pioneering funding program to help South Africa break its coal dependency with other nations, to dialing up political pressure on less-climate-ambitious countries such as Australia, Russia and Brazil.
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