Climate summit: Ambitious targets and ambiguities View(s):The world’s leaders gather in the salubrious climes of Scotland this weekend to hammer out a strategy to cool the planet before earthlings self-destruct their habitat by the end of the century, if not sooner. Will it be a “Good COP- Bad COP” summit, asked one analyst. President Rajapaksa has already outlined his thinking on climate change. Speaking recently at the UN General Assembly, he referred to Sri Lanka being a climate vulnerable country that was “deeply aware of the dangers of climate change”. faces climate changeThere appears to be a climate change domestically as well, with public agitation against the Government having a ‘snowball effect’.

Source: Sunday Times October 31, 2021 00:40 UTC