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The "Trump issue" comes up again during Nancy Pelosi's COP press conference.

When challenged on nearly half of all US voters backing a Trump agenda which denied climate change, she insists that American people "overwhelmingly" understand the crisis facing the planet.

She says the images of flooding, wild fires and storm damage across the country and the world "make the most eloquent argument about climate change...that something different is going on".

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has welcomed the draft COP26 agreement which it says "recognises the shortfall of current ambition and the scale of the task we have in front of us".

Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, the group's global lead for climate and energy, said in a statement that it was "essential" that ministers "work to include a clear plan to close the 2030 ambition gap and the timeframe to do this".

Nancy Pelosi, the House Speaker of the US Congress, is telling COP26 delegates that the US has regained its "moral authority" on the climate challenge since Joe Biden was elected president.

She describes the four years prior to that - when Donald Trump was in the White House - as a "dark" time which the country has now emerged from.

Pelosi insists the full focus of Congress is on meeting President Biden's interim targets on emissions by 2030 and net zero by 2050.

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Experts from the World Resources Institute (WRI) have been reacting to the draft text coming out of COP26 negotiations.

David Waskow, international climate director, recognises the "quite positive development" of language urging parties to come forward by 2022, external to revisit their climate action plans to align with the Paris Agreement temperature goal.

Yamide Dagnet, director of climate negotiations, believes we will see some reaction from developing countries to the document - they'll be happy to see the reference to a timeframe and revisiting plans, but would have liked to see clearer language around issues like financing and adaption. It's clear from the draft that there's still a lack of progress and "tension and impasse" around some elements, she says.

There are a lot of placeholders in the draft proposals and it'll be interesting to see what remains in the final text, the WRI experts say, but many may be asking how binding any agreement made at COP26 will be on the world stage.

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A declaration released on Wednesday and signed by dozens of countries, companies and local governments promised to work towards all sales of new cars and vans being zero emission around the world by 2040, "and by no later than 2035 in leading markets".

Germany however is not a signatory - and neither are two of its major car manufacturers, BMW and Volkswagen. The BBC's Germany correspondent Damien McGuinness reports on the country's love of cars.

In the US it’s owning a gun; in the UK it’s an aversion to ID cards; for the freedom-loving individualist in Germany, it’s the right to drive as fast as you want down the Autobahn.

It’s a paradox that a country so keen on environmental issues is also the only Western, industrialised country to have no speed limit on motorways.

“It’s absurd,” says Anna Baatz, one of the initiators of a campaign for a referendum to make Berlin car-free. “We can stay the land of engineers, but we need a transformation.”

The campaign has gathered 50,000 signatures, enough to pass the first stage. A binding referendum could be held within the next two years, which if successful would ban all but essential cars from most of Berlin.

Much of the country’s wealth comes from manufacturing cars, but a growing movement wants fewer cars in cities and more space for bikes, pedestrians and public transport. This is Germany’s new culture war.

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Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown says Boris Johnson needs to do more to ensure COP26 is a success.

Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said there was a "great deal of ambitious talk" in the draft deal but the "problem is that the the two make or break decisions of this conference are not being made".

He said further meetings next year were being proposed before nations would commit to cutting emissions by 2030 or formally back the call to rein in temperature rises of above 1.5C.

He described the document as "an admission of prospective failure".

Brown added the prime minister - who is returning to the summit later - "has not got to be at COP for a day trip - he's got to work the next 72 hours to see if we can raise the level of ambition... otherwise Glasgow will be seen as a missed opportunity".

'We are sticking our necks out'published at 09:45 Greenwich Mean Time 10 November 2021

09:45 GMT 10 November 2021

Adam Fleming
Chief political correspondent

Ministers, diplomats and campaigners are analysing the first draft of the outcomes from the conference, which has been published this morning.

The COP26 presidency say they've gone for an unashamedly ambitious opening bid, rather than starting small and hoping to add more over the final days.

The section on efforts to limit the increases to global temperatures might look a bit vague at first glance but it includes lots of processes designed to pressure countries to make more ambitious commitments to reduce greenhouse gases: an annual ministerial meeting, a UN summit of world leaders in two years, constant scientific assessments of how pledges are adding up and - the diplomats' favourite tactic for a tricky issue - a roadmap towards future progress.

There is an unprecedented call to phase out coal, which will be controversial. And it appears this is the first time that a document like this has mentioned money to pay for the effects of climate change being felt now, known officially as "loss and damage" but also called "compensation" by others.

In a document big on generalities, there is a specific demand to double the amount of money available for countries to adapt to the changing climate.

Five areas still have "placeholder" text but these are being played down.

The strategy seems to be to publish an ambitious document to flush out political opposition so that the 197 parties to the talks are responsible for the outcome, rather than the hosts. It also means this document will be whittled away over the final three days.

"We are sticking our necks out," said one person close to the drafting process.

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The call for all parties to accelerate the phasing out of coal and subsidies for fossil fuels is the only reference to fossil fuels in the seven-page document.

However, even that is more than some activists were fearing and expecting.

There were concerns that it would not be mentioned at all due to lobbying by countries with large fossil fuel industries.

On Wednesday, Greenpeace International claimed to have seen a draft proposal which "completely fails to mention fossil fuels, despite expert consensus on the need to end new coal, oil and gas immediately to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement 1.5C goal".

They had called on negotiators to stand up to fossil fuel-producing countries, and insist on "no cheating, no loopholes, no offset scams, and no greenwash".

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The focus of the summit today is on transport, and a number of countries, cities, companies and local governments have released a declaration committing to a rapid transition to zero emission vehicles.

Pledges include governments working towards "all sales of new cars and vans being zero emission by 2040 or earlier, or by no later than 2035 in leading markets".

Car manufacturers - including major brands like Ford, General Motors and Mercedes - also promise to work towards 100% zero emission new car and van sales by 2035 or earlier "in leading markets".

And cities and local government have pledged to convert van fleets and leased cars to zero emissions by 2035 "at the latest".

But there are a number of big car makers missing from the list, like VW and BMW, and major economies like the US, China and Germany have not signed up.

You can read the full declaration here, external.

Helen Briggs
Environment correspondent in Glasgow

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Today it’s transport day, with an announcement expected on how countries are working together to phase out petrol and diesel vehicles around the world.

The UK has already said it will end the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans by 2030 - and has confirmed it will extend this to HGVs by 2040.

And we're finding out how many other countries have pledged to ban new petrol and diesel car sales - by 2035 in richer nations and by 2040 in the rest of the world.

The UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to deliver remarks about the progress made at COP26.

It comes after COP president Alok Sharma said there was “still a mountain to climb”.

And as we've been reporting, we're getting a sense of how things are shaping up with the release of another draft of the document that will define the success of the summit.

With just days to go before the supposed deadline of 18:00 GMT on Friday, there’s unease among some delegates about the slow pace of progress in discussions, with ministers from different nations being consulted for the final diplomatic push.

We also expect news on phasing out oil and gas production from a coalition of countries led by Denmark and Costa Rica.

And there’ll be a Global Climate Action Awards Ceremony in the evening.

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The first draft of a pact that could be agreed at the summit has been published. The seven-page document, external calls on countries to:

• Revisit and strengthen their emissions-cutting plans in the next year
• Set out long-term strategies by the end of next year to reach net-zero emissions by around mid-century
• Take meaningful and effective action to limit global warming to 1.5C - which they pledged to try to pursue under the Paris climate accord
• Accelerate the phasing-out of coal and subsidies for fossil fuels
• Double their collective provision of climate finance to help developing countries adapt to climate change

Read more here.

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Countries are being urged to "revisit and strengthen" their emissions-cutting targets for 2030 in the first draft of the UN's potential COP agreement.

But environmental activists are already insisting the plan is not strong enough.

Greenpeace International executive director Jennifer Morgan says the draft deal is "not a plan to solve the climate crisis".

"It's a polite request that countries maybe, possibly, do more next year," she adds.

Draft document aims for significant stepspublished at 08:24 Greenwich Mean Time 10 November 2021

08:24 GMT 10 November 2021

Matt McGrath
Environment correspondent

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The document may be just seven pages long but it attempts to steer COP26 towards a series of significant steps that will prevent global temperatures going above 1.5C this century.

Perhaps the most important part of that is getting countries to improve their carbon cutting plans.

To that end, this draft decision urges parties to "revisit and strengthen the 2030 targets in their nationally determined contributions, as necessary to align with the Paris Agreement temperature goal by the end of 2022".

It will be interesting to see how countries like China, India, Brazil and Saudi Arabia respond to this request to put new plans on the table by the end of next year.

There is some comfort for developing countries to see that their financial needs are recognised as countries are asked to mobilise climate finance "beyond $100bn a year" and the draft welcomes steps to put in place a much larger though as yet unspecified figure for support from 2025.

Loss and damage, an issue of key importance to the developing world is included in the draft with encouragement to richer countries to scale up their action and support including finance for poorer nations.

The document also calls on countries to accelerate the phase out of coal and subsidies for fossil fuels - but has no firm dates or targets on this issue.

Campaigners will welcome the inclusion and will hope it survives into the final text.

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson is returning to Glasgow later to push for progress as the summit enters its final days.

Mr Johnson will urge governments to bridge any remaining gaps between them.

He will be joined by the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, as he meets ministers and senior delegates.

Delegates will be working to strike a deal before the summit ends on Friday.

Mr Johnson said: "Negotiating teams are doing the hard yards in these final days of COP26 to turn promises into action on climate change. There's still much to do."

He added: "This is bigger than any one country and it is time for nations to put aside differences and come together for our planet and our people. We need to pull out all the stops."

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The United Nations has just published the first draft of a potential agreement for the summit.

The "cover decision" urges countries to "revisit and strengthen" their emissions cutting targets for 2030 in their national action plans by the end of 2022, in order to meet the goal to try to limit global warming to 1.5C.

The seven-page document, external expresses alarm and concern that human activities have caused about 1.1C of warming to date. It says the impacts of climate change are already being felt in every region.

It stresses the urgency of increased ambition and action in relation to cutting emissions and calls for countries to accelerate the phasing-out of coal and subsidies for fossil fuels.

It also and for developed countries to at least double their collective provision of climate finance to help developing countries.

The decision will now have to be negotiated and agreed by countries attending the summit, which ends on Friday.

Hello and welcome to our live coverage of developments at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow this Wednesday.

The United Nations climate agency has just published a first draft of the political decision countries will issue at the end of the summit on Friday.

Negotiators from nearly 200 countries will now work from the draft - known as the "cover decision" - to strike a final deal on how they will cut emissions to avoid temperature rises of above 1.5C.

Meanwhile, it is also transport day with a flurry of announcements expected around aviation, hydrogen power, shipping and other transport-related themes.

The UK has already announced that new heavy goods vehicles sold from 2040 will need to have zero emissions.