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 — which hosted the COP26 U.N. climate conference and will lead work through to the 2022 gathering in Egypt — 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.