Despite COVID-19 concerns of some of the delegates from around the world, the British government decided to hold an in-person conference, arguing that world leaders must act now to prevent catastrophic global warming -- and that they will be more effective if they can talk face-to-face.
LONDON -- Climate activist Lavetanalagi Seru has been watching COVID-19 case numbers rise in the U.K. ahead of the UN climate conference beginning Sunday, and it scares him -- even though he's been vaccinated and is only 29.
"COP26 has already been postponed by one year," Alok Sharma, the president-designate of the conference known as COP26, said last month. "And we are all too aware climate change has not taken time off." A failure to cut red tape has made it difficult for civil society activists to get the visas they need to travel. Seru, for example, is still waiting for his.
While some nongovernmental organizations have called the waivers vital and the U.S. has embraced the idea, some experts doubt waivers for the highly complex shots would boost production. But many agree that richer countries have fallen short in their promises to share vaccines broadly, even as they approve booster shots for their own citizens.
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