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Ministers set agenda for COP26 as floods continue in Europe

Environment ministers met in London as flash floods sent parts of the city under water.

Environment ministers met in London as flash floods sent parts of the city under water. They set the agenda for COP26, the international climate change conference taking place in November. But are the politicians doing enough to tackle the effects of climate change? We speak to Dr Sarah Ivory, director of the Centre for Business, Climate Change and Sustainability at the University of Edinburgh Business School.
And as Australia heads back into lockdown to limit cases of the Delta variant of COVID-19, we speak to Sarah Hunter, chief economist at Oxford Economics about how that is likely to affect the country's economy.

(Picture: Cars driving through a flooded London street. Credit: Getty)

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