Let’s all do our bit to tackle climate change

Broken promises: A person wearing a mask depicting Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson highlighted the issue of unfulfilled promises during the recently-concluded UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Britain. — Reuters file photo

THE recently-ended Conference of Parties on Climate Change or COP26 was a cop-out, and was summarily dismissed by Greta Thunberg as just “blah, blah, blah.”

The people in power – there are no leaders at COP26 – once again failed to reach concrete agreements, and the actions or decisions they agreed upon were described as non-persuasive, lacked urgency or vague.