Simon Jones: Push the green button

With just a few days until COP26 is held in Glasgow, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been making some rather worrying comments to the media – about how successful the event will be and how recycling plastic ‘isn’t the answer.’

Earlier this month, much of the UK optical industry sat down for ABDO’s See Summit, where Nick Bridge, the foreign secretary’s special representative for climate change, gave an overview of the perilous position the world currently finds itself in and just how important COP26 is in order to broker climate change agreements between countries.

I feel sorry for Nick Bridge, not least because he had the double whammy of working for the geographically challenged Dominic Raab and now cheese import expert, Liz Truss, but because he now has Boris Johnson talking down the chances of agreements being reached at COP26. And if Mr Moonshot is talking something down, you know it won’t end well.