Sky News published this video item, entitled “Sky News Breakfast: Hopes for the last day of COP26” – below is their description.
This morning on Sky News Breakfast:
– With the clock ticking, the leader of one of the world’s most climate vulnerable nations delivers a damning assessment of COP26
– Katarina Vittozzi is in Chennai reporting on the devastating consequences of climate change
– How dangerous and illegal mining for gems in Madagascar is supercharging deforestation
– Leaders of the smallest nations hope that the biggest nations will sign a final deal today
– And the PM of the Bahamas says the talks ‘don’t seem to have any teeth’ and has criticised Boris Johnson’s approach to COP26.
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In This Story: Bahamas
The Bahamas, known officially as the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is a country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the Atlantic. It takes up 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago’s land area and is home to 88% of the archipelago’s population.
The archipelagic state consists of more than 700 islands, cays, and islets in the Atlantic Ocean, and is located north of Cuba and Hispaniola Island (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands, southeast of the US state of Florida, and east of the Florida Keys.
The capital is Nassau on the island of New Providence. The Royal Bahamas Defence Force describes The Bahamas’ territory as encompassing 470,000 km2 (180,000 sq mi) of ocean space. The country gained governmental independence in 1973 led by Sir Lynden O. Pindling, with Elizabeth II as its queen.
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