A new song gives Cop31 Eurovision vibes – but how should we score progress so far?

In this week’s newsletter: The climate summit has a new floor-filler to ‘bring down the heat’, but it may struggle to get countries to sing a different environmental tune • Don’t get Down to Earth delivered to your inbox? Sign up here The UN’s annual climate summit is known for being arcane, long-winded and frustrating. On Wednesday, however, Turkey brought a dash of Eurovision-style glamour to proceedings. The hosts of the talks, held in the historic Mediterranean city of Antalya, decided to blast assorted world leaders, dignitaries and other delegates with Let’s Cop, a bona fide floor-filler that includes the lines: “Bring down the heat, make it drop. One world, one call, let’s Cop.” ‘The world we know is over’ without urgent climate action, leaders tell Cop31 Oil slicks seen from space: the devastating impact of boat strikes on fragile Gulf ecosystems Bird flu has caused catastrophic die-offs – could a wave of extinctions follow? Continue reading...