Sky News published this video item, entitled “The Daily Climate Show: COP26 conference under threat from vaccine inequality” – below is their description.
On today’s show, why unequal vaccine access could put COP26 under threat and UK government faces legal challenge over oil and gas tax breaks.
Plus, what the Earth’s vital signs can tell scientists.
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Sky News is a British free-to-air television news channel and organisation. Sky News is distributed via a radio news service, and through online channels. It is owned by Sky Group, a division of Comcast. John Ryley is the head of Sky News, a role he has held since June 2006.
Climate is the long-term average of weather, typically averaged over a period of 30 years. More rigorously, it is the mean and variability of meteorological variables over a time spanning from months to millions of years.
COP26 is the shortened name of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference – the 26th United Nations Climate Change conference. It is being held in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, between 31 October and 12 November 2021, under the presidency of Alok Sharma.
A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, its toxins, or one of its surface proteins.
