Just a talking shop or can it achieve real change?

double down on restrictions and limit our freedoms.

ANDY PAUL, Hythe, Kent.

MOST of the world leaders at Cop26 are saying the right thing, but few will want to do anything that would severely affect their economies. They need to be radical, but instead will just make small adjustments to show they care, while having little effect. Most nations will do as little as they can while others will do the hard yards and suffer accordingly. If no one will make radical changes, the whole thing is a joke and a waste of time. With several polluting countries not even sending delegates, the omens are bad. But the issue can’t be kicked down the road any longer. We need each country to accept its share of the pain that must come in the battle to save our planet.

PHILIP MUNRO, Manchester.

TURKEYS do not vote for Christmas and countries will not give up using coal unless paid to invest in new technology. We squander billions on space adventure, but don’t fund chemists and engineers to find ways to mitigate damage to the ozone layer. Sir David Attenborough is a wonderful advocate for the need to take action to prevent climate change, but his pleadings will fall on deaf ears unless the finest brains come together to address the problem. M. J. BRIDGER, Rowland’s Castle, Hants.

THE messages from Boris Johnson and Prince Charles — it’s one minute to midnight and we’re in the last-chance saloon — do not heap enough pressure on world leaders. Our duty is to protect and preserve the planet for future generations. Everyone at Cop26 needs to understand we did not inherit this planet from our parents, but have borrowed it from our children.

JAMES WIGNALL, Accrington, Lancs.