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As we close our live coverage of Tuesday's COP26 developments - let's look ahead to tomorrow's agenda.

• Transport will be Wednesday's theme - we'll be asking how accessible renewable fuels are
• UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to deliver remarks about the progress made at COP26 so far
• Negotiations continue between countries as the deadline for an outcome from the conference gets ever closer
• There will be sessions exploring sustainability in the meetings, events and conferences sector, and a Global Climate Action Awards Ceremony in the evening.

Tuesday's live coverage was brought to you by Jasmine Taylor-Coleman, James Clarke, Kelly-Leigh Cooper, Paul McLaren, George Bowden, Georgina Rannard and Dulcie Lee.

A lot of talk at COP26 has focused on shifting away from global reliance on fossil fuels.

The UK government thinks nuclear technology is part of the solution. The UK government's plan to reach "net-zero" emissions by 2050 says nuclear power provides a "reliable source of low-carbon electricity".

At the moment about 16% of Britain's electricity is provided by nuclear power from 15 reactors, according to the UK government, external.

But it wants around a quarter of Britain's energy to come from nuclear by 2025.

So how safe and green is nuclear and how much is it used around the world?

Read more in our guide.

Helen Briggs
Environment correspondent in Glasgow

Week two, and there's a familiar rhythm to the day. Wake, check the news, do a Covid test, check the news again. Then a walk beside the majestic River Clyde as joggers and cyclists dodge the stream of suited-and-booted delegates making their way to COP.

Police patrol outside the iron gates but, once I'm through security, I'm in the "Blue Zone" where the key negotiations between world leaders are taking place. This is United Nations - not Scottish - territory for this fortnight only.

I spend much of my day in the Press Centre where hundreds of journalists sit at socially-distanced desks, existing on a diet of carbon-counted sarnies and Irn-Bru.

I'll be checking out stories, conducting interviews and filing copy. The air is charged with adrenaline, but through the windows there's a calming glimpse of the river beyond.

Now and again, there's the sound of a helicopter hovering overhead. Information flows in and out at a mind-boggling speed, with journalists constantly coming and going to events and briefings.

It's exhilarating and sometimes exhausting.

Read more from Helen here.

A number of British designers and fashion brands - including Mulberry and Burberry - have taken part in a special event for COP26.

The Great Fashion for Climate Action show was held at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow on Tuesday.

It aimed to showcase UK fashion innovation in the context of climate change.

British designer Phoebe English was among those who took part. She tells the BBC News Channel the show showcased an array of solutions and ideas to help lessen the industry's burden on the environment.

English says the process involves looking at fashion in a "new light" including valuing and using our clothes for longer.

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Barack Obama goes into fist-bump overdrive as he thanks US delegates and staff at COP26.

The former US president delivered a personal message to them before heading home from Glasgow.

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He had focused his trip to Scotland on urging young people to "stay angry" in the fight against climate change.

During his speech to the summit on Monday, Obama said the world is "nowhere near where we need to be" to avoid a future climate catastrophe.

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One of the climate summit's most popular events took place last night - a huge quiz hosted by the organisation Carbon Brief.

With 600 people attending virtually and online, it was a welcome break in the long days and nights at COP.

And congratulations to the University of East Anglia who won for the second year running.

But what really grabbed our attention is just how difficult the questions were.

Prepare yourself to try to answer:

"If Paris = 21 and Berlin = 1, solve this equation: Doha/Milan = ?"....

No, we didn't get it either.

The full quiz is on YouTube, external should you find yourself with several hours to spare..

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We'll be bringing today's live coverage of the COP26 conference in Glasgow to a close in the next half hour. But first: a catch-up of Tuesday's main developments:

• The world is on track for 2.4C global warming despite pledges made at COP26, an influential analysis shows
• The Glasgow summit "has a massive credibility, action and commitment gap", according to the Climate Action Tracker
• COP26 President Alok Sharma says the prediction shows there has not been enough progress at the conference
• A separate report predicted one billion people will suffer life-threatening heat and humidity if temperatures rise by 2C globally
• Discussions at the summit on Tuesday focused on gender issues around climate change, and how science can be used to find solutions
• US representatives including New York's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attended sessions in Glasgow - Ocasio-Cortez declared the US was back being a climate leader under US President Joe Biden
• A 3.5m puppet depicting a refugee girl from Syria attended the summit. Organisers behind Little Amal hope the figure will inspire a change in equality
• Twenty-two governments and the European Commission agree a deal to finance clean technology to decarbonise the toughest industries.

James FitzGerald
BBC Minute

Gender and innovation have been today’s top themes at COP26. And nobody captures the spirit of the day quite like Vinisha Umashankar, a 15-year-old inventor from southern India.

She was the youngest finalist in the Duke of Cambridge’s recent Earthshot Prize for creative solutions to the world’s problems. That was thanks to her creation of a solar-powered cart that provides a mobile clothes-ironing service without relying on traditional charcoal-burning.

It’s an effort to curb “air pollution, deforestation, respiratory diseases, and climate change," Vinisha told BBC Minute earlier in the conference. She says we can all do our bit to tackle these issues.

“If you look at climate change as a huge problem, then you get overwhelmed,” she explains. “But when you think about it, it's these small problems that come together to cause climate change. If we just focus on solving these little problems, then climate change is much easier to look at."

She gave a speech to world leaders at COP26 last week, which she says was a combination of “frustration and urgency, but also optimism.”

“They are definitely working the best they can, but sometimes it’s best to pick up the pace and speed things up, because we don’t have much time left to take things at our own speed.”

Sixteen people were arrested following a COP26 climate protest in Glasgow yesterday evening.

Police say they initially "facilitated a peaceful protest" outside The Engine Works conference and dining venue in the Maryhill area of the city.

But officers stepped in after some demonstrators from the Glasgow Calls Out Polluters group lay down in the road.

A Police Scotland spokesman said: "All of the 16 arrested were issued with a recorded police warning and released."

Meanwhile, two protesters covered in fake blood have chained themselves together in a protest outside the offices of a bank in the centre of Glasgow.

The area around St Vincent Street has been blocked and around 150 police officers are at the scene. Other protesters are holding banners calling for an end to deforestation.

Fewer than 50 arrests were made during the first week of COP26.

Police have praised the majority of "good natured" protesters who have taken part in demos across Glasgow, including the estimated 100,000 marchers who took to the streets on Saturday.

Megha Mohan
BBC Gender & Identity Correspondent

“These conversations spill over to the dinner table. The other day my granddaughter Peinum asked about why water was coming over the seawall”, Hilda Heine tells the BBC. She is a former president of the Marshall Islands, and also the first woman ever to lead an independent Pacific Islands nation.

“When did she ask about that?” asks her daughter Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, Peinum’s mother.

“About two weeks ago,” Heine replies.

“Yes, she doesn’t just ask questions, she grills me about climate change,” adds her daughter, a poet and Marshall Islands climate envoy for COP26.

Home to just over 59,000 people, the Republic of the Marshall Islands comprises five isolated islands and 29 atolls.

At their lowest points, the atolls sit just above sea level. Since 1993, sea levels in the Marshall Islands have risen by 7mm (0.3 inches) per year, double the global average, according to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

By 2030, the islands’ surrounding sea level is expected to rise by 9cm, drastically increasing the frequency and the impact of storm surges and coastal flooding.

The mother-daughter team say they play to each other’s strengths when fighting for their country.

How a power crisis has forced China to boost coal productionpublished at 16:32 Greenwich Mean Time 9 November 2021

16:32 GMT 9 November 2021

Stephen McDonell
BBC News, China correspondent

From late September, north-eastern China was hit by major electricity shortages with some shops using candlelight to stay open, industries told to ration power and even global supply chains disrupted as factories had to halt production.

The roots of the power crisis are complex.

China’s economy came out of the Covid crisis earlier than most countries, leading to a surge in international demand for goods made here. This generated an unexpected increase in electricity use of about 10%.

Because this came as something of a surprise to many officials, there wasn’t enough coal coming through to meet needs and the country is still a long way off having enough non-coal fired power options to turn to.

Coal prices nearly doubled but consumer electricity prices remained steady, as per government mandate.

In this climate, producing more electricity meant companies losing money. So, as you might expect, they didn’t want to increase output.

Now, the pricing system in China is already being altered to better reflect market demand but these overall pressures have not been properly resolved.

In the short-term, a solution was needed to get through this winter. The decision: increase coal production.

More broadly, the Chinese government says coal-fired electricity will increase up until 2025 and only then be reduced as a proportion of power in the energy mix.

Long-term, this country needs more renewable power and crucially, a much larger capacity to store it. Non-fossil fuel electricity (including nuclear and hydro) will hit 47.3% of installed capacity by the end of this year.

It may sound like a lot but it’s not nearly enough for China to achieve its stated environmental protection ambitions.

Crowds have gathered to greet Barack Obama as he visited Strathclyde University for talks with COP26 youth leaders.

The Obama Foundation roundtable event in Glasgow yesterday evening discussed how the current generation can lead the fight against climate change.

Leaving the event, the former US president urged onlookers to "get active".

Prof Sir Jim McDonald, the university principal, says the visit by such a "global champion of social progress and equality" is an honour for the entire Strathclyde community.

More reaction now to the new report that says the world is nowhere near its goals on limited global temperature rises - despite COP26 pledges.

Dr Kat Kramer, climate policy lead for Christian Aid, describes the analysis as "yet another screaming siren".

Ed Miliband, the UK's shadow business secretary, says the report is an "important reality check on the government's attempt to greenwash Glasgow".

"All countries urgently need to step up the ambition and to agree to revisit these issues well before 2025, otherwise the chance to limit global warming to 1.5C will slip irrevocably through our hands," he says.

An Afghan climate campaigner has alleged his visa to attend COP26 is stuck in limbo after officials failed to clear it in time.

Nasratullah Mateen has said he was officially invited to attend the summit in Glasgow - and would have been his country's only accredited delegate - but has since struggled to get a visa to fly into the UK.

"They failed me, and the voice of over 34 million people who are already severely affected by the climate crisis," he wrote on Twitter.

We have contacted the Cop26 organisers for comment.

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President of COP26, Alok Sharma, says prediction reports about temperature rises demonstrate "that there has been some progress but clearly not enough".

Analysis from Climate Action Tracker published this afternoon calculates the world is heading for 2.4C of warming, far more than the 1.5C limit nations have committed to.

"If we look at where we were heading before Paris (climate talks in 2015) the trajectory on some of the analysis suggested we were heading to 6C of global warming," he says.

"Post-Paris, those commitments were taking us to below 4C, and now I think you see various reports that suggest we've bent the curve towards 2C.

"But of course that isn't good enough," he adds. "What we've always said is that we want at this COP to be able to say with credibility that we're keeping 1.5C alive, 1.5C within reach.

"And that is what we're going to be working towards over the coming days."

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The governments of 22 countries and the European Commission have confirmed they will work together to invest in clean energy technologies to help reduce the carbon used by challenging industries.

Four "missions" will help facilitate urban transitions, eliminate emissions from industry, enable CO2 removal and produce renewable fuels.

They are part of Mission Innovation - which brings together governments from every continent, international organisations, and private sector investors.

The announcement has been described as a "breakthrough" and championed by US climate envoy John Kerry, who says it's "accelerating innovation across challenging sectors and technologies to enable a net-zero transition by mid-century".

Sir Patrick Vallance, the UK government's chief scientific advisor says: “Reaching global net zero by mid-century requires intense international collaboration on research and innovation to develop and deliver solutions across all sectors of the global economy."

He says Mission Innovation will provide an important platform for the public and private sectors around the world to work together over the next decade.

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Let’s turn now to US representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has been speaking at a COP26 event on climate action.

Ocasio-Cortez - often known simply by her initials AOC - is one of the most vocal voices in US politics advocating radical action on climate change.

She begins her speech by declaring the US is “back” as a climate leader after the Trump administration - but says her party’s approach is now “fundamentally different” to before.

She explains they are moving away from “pure market-based solutions” to climate change that were around 10 years ago.

Instead, she says, grassroots activists are now invited to help shape policy, citing the Green New Deal - a radical plan to transform the economy and tackle climate change.

She says it shows "we can't just pursue decarbonisation" - plans will have to benefit the working class, the vulnerable, frontline communities, people of colour, women and underserved communities.

Justice and jobs must be the focus of any climate plans, she adds.

“That’s what’s going to make it politically popular and where we’re going to mobilise our economy to meet these aggressive targets.”

Environment group Greenpeace describes the new report from Climate Action Tracker we've been reporting on this afternoon as "devastating" and is urging governments to work with "vigour for a deal to save our common future" and "turn this thing around".

Executive Director Jennifer Morgan says the report - which predicts the world is on track for a 2.4C temperature rise despite recent pledges - is like a "telescope trained on an asteroid heading for Earth".

"We’ve just been told what the future holds," she says of the report. "Everybody knows what we need to do to change it. No more excuses, time’s up, our leaders need to deliver, and now.”

James FitzGerald
BBC Minute

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More now on the appearance at COP26 from Little Amal - a not-so-little puppet depicting a refugee girl from Syria.

One of the puppeteers who has animated Amal during her 8,000km journey across Europe has told BBC Minute why today’s appearance on Gender Day is so meaningful.

“She can stand for so much and be a beacon for so many things,” says Sebastian Charles, from Good Chance Theatre. “It’s a really positive step in the right direction in terms of equality.”

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Amal cannot communicate verbally but Sebastian says her silence speaks volumes.

“Rather than make political statements, she’s able to just be in the room - and her presence alone sparks conversations”, he explains. “One of them is climate change, which can be linked to the refugee crisis.”

The 3.5m-tall character was made by War Horse creators The Handspring Puppet Company. Controlling Amal can be a challenge – and Seb is just one of a team of puppeteers today.

“There’s no book that you can dust off and read how to animate something like this,” he says. “It’s definitely something that you learn on the job.”

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Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, John Kerry, is among those representing the US at the COP26 summit.

He's appeared today at a panel event organised by Bloomberg.

Kerry describes Donald Trump's withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement as showing "vindictive mischief" without science or economic sense - something he says has hurt the US reputation abroad.

Asked about the pledges made in Glasgow so far, he says he hopes the summit is building into something "very significant" but is also a "test" and a "checkpoint" on what was agreed in Paris.

"This COP is already different and better than any COP I've ever been to," he says of the conference. "There is a greater sense of urgency, a greater sense of focus, a greater sense of possibilities."

But the envoy acknowledges there are still "some issues" to be worked out in the coming days.

Asked if the progress being made is enough, Kerry says the US is still "hopeful" other nations - including China - can be brought into agreements made on methane.

He also says it will be "insanity" not to closely measure the progress being made every year at future conferences in line with pledges.