News summary — COP26 Day 6
Welcome to our sixth daily broadcast from the negotiations floor at the UN Climate Change Conference COP26. Today’s theme, Building Momentum for Change, is brought to you live from Glasgow and our hubs in Nairobi, Washington DC, and Stockholm. Highlights: Sophia Mathur, Climate Activist, Fridays for Future; Neeshad Shafi, Executive Director at the Arab Youth Climate Movement Qatar; Paul Behrens, academic and author in environmental change at Leiden University; Marco Rodzynek, Founder at NOAH Advisors Ltd. and NOAH Conference, and Tech solutions . Today is " Nature and land use" day at COP26, with a lot of focus on agriculture, a sector that in past negotiations has not got the attention it deserves. Industrial agriculture is a huge global carbon emitter, and our current production methods are responsible for land degradation and desertification in many parts of the world. And although starvation is again on the rise, one-third of all food produced globally is thro...