Climate change: Time running out to stop catastrophe – Alok Sharma

By Francesca Gillett
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The world is “dangerously close” to running out of time to stop a climate change catastrophe, the UK government’s climate chief Alok Sharma has said.

Mr Sharma – who is leading COP26, the climate summit hosted by the UK this year – said the effects were already clear with floods, fires and heatwaves.

“We can’t afford to wait two years, five years, 10 years – this is the moment,”he told the Observer.

But he did not condemn the government for allowing more fossil fuel projects.

And he defended his decision to travel tomore than 30 countries in seven months.

Mr Sharma’s interview with the Observer comes ahead ofa major report…