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A bus demonstrating battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell technology is displayed at the SECC in Glasgow on Wednesday. Day 11 of the Cop26 climate summit will focus on driving the global transition to zero-emission transport.
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A speaker during Wednesday’s headline event is seen behind a full-scale replica of Formula E’s Gen2 race car made entirely of recycled plastics by the artist Liam Hopkins. Twenty-four countries and a group of leading car manufacturers have committed to ending the era of fossil-fuel powered vehicles by 2040 or earlier, in a major new commitment set at Cop26
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Campaigners from Friends of the Earth Scotland, Get Glasgow Moving and the International Transport Workers’ Federation gather in George Square, Glasgow, demanding better public transport as an essential part of addressing climate change
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A person is silhouetted during Cop26. Regarding shipping, 18 countries launched the Clydebank Declaration that aims to establish at least six green shipping corridors by 2025, among other actions
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Saudi Arabia’s energy minister, Abdulaziz bin Salman, waits to speak in a session. A draft text at Cop26 urged countries on Wednesday to boost their emissions-cutting goals by 2022, three years ahead of schedule, after data showed the world was far off track to limit warming to 1.5C
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Delegates discuss the Cop26 draft text
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A protest about article 6 of the Cop26 draft text (cooperative approaches)
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Shuttered amusement park rides stand amid flood waters on Marina beach in Chennai, India. As the world was discussing the effects of unseasonal rain and distress to coastal communities among a host of ecological issues at Cop26, the southern Indian city was being battered by rain leading to massive flooding and loss of life and property
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(From left) the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Patricia Espinosa, the UN secretary general, Antonio Guterres, and the UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, arrive to attend a meeting with co-facilitators
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Delegates make use of an art installation called Between Forests and Skies, which replicates a bus stop and is made from aluminium using groundbreaking inert anode technology
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Storm (back), a 10-metre tall goddess of the sea puppet who carries a message of the oceans in crisis, meets Little Amal, a 3.5-metre tall 10-year-old Syrian refugee puppet
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The UN secretary general, Antonio Guterres, meets with a congressional delegation led by the US House of Representatives speaker, Nancy Pelosi
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China’s special climate envoy, Xie Zhenhua, speaks during a joint China and US statement on a declaration enhancing climate action. In a surprise press conference, the two superpowers promised to cooperate more and hoped for the success of Cop26
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The US special climate envoy, John Kerry, speaks during a joint China and US statement on a declaration enhancing climate action
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Youth climate activists protest against fossil fuels outside the plenary rooms at Cop26 as high-level negotiations continue among world governments
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Line Kruse and Ian Kornfeld of the Gotan Project perform during the UN global climate action awards ceremony at Cop26
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Winners pose on a stage at the UN global climate action awards
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‘Go away, go away, go away‘ is beamed on to the Cop26 summit building. Demonstrators from the anti-gas campaign Gastavists became locked in a battle with the official projection operators when they tried to put their messages on to the side of Glasgow’s famous Armadillo building. They had assembled on the opposite bank of the River Clyde to beam messages including ‘ban fracking now’ and ‘cut methane now’ on to the structure’s silver segments.
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