‘Conference should be in person’

A major climate change summit in the UK should be held in person this year, a Government minister has said.

Environment Secretary George Eustice said he believes the Cop26 climate conference, set to take place in Glasgow in November, would be much more effective” if people were able to physically attend.

The event had been postponed from November 2020 due to the pandemic.

On Sunday, Mr Eustice told Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday: “Well, we think it should be done in person, physically.

We delayed it obviously last year because we wanted it to happen in person. I think it’s much more effective if it does happen in person and that's absolutely our intention.

“There may be components of it that are partvirtual that some people attend virtually but we think for the main leader summit that it happens in person and that's our intention.”