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News summary — COP26 Day 9

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  Welcome to day nine  of our daily broadcasts from the negotiations floor at the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, and from our hubs in Nairobi, Stockholm and Washington DC.    T oday's theme is  Circular Electronics.  Learn about the challenges, and meet the players who are moving ahead of their competition through bold climate action.   With   top speakers like:  Sacha Ghiglione , CEO of Prime Computer;  Claire Shrewsbury , Director of Insights & Innovation at WRAP; and  Wolfgang Lehmachar , Director, Thought leader & Former Head of Supply Chain and Transport Industries at World Economic Forum. One billion people  will be affected by extreme heat stress if the global temperature rise reaches 2°C. According to  new research  released by the UK Met Office at COP26, the climate crisis drives up a deadly combination of heat and humidity, to a point where the human body is unable to get rid of excess heat...