Barry joined as a guest in the Scottish Affairs and Business Energy and Industrial Strategy Select Committees recently. He quizzed Anne-Marie Trevelyan, COP26 Champion for Adaptation and Resilience, over plans to support developing countries with loss and damage through technological and financial support. Loss and Damage is overwhelmingly concentrated in low-income countries facing the gravest effects of the climate emergency today with irreversible economic, cultural and ecosystem degradation. Barry stressed that the adaptation support agreed at COP26 should also compensate countries who have faced losses already as a result of the climate crisis.
In the second session with the BEIS Committee, Barry asked COP26 leads at the Cabinet Office on progress to make this the ‘most inclusive COP’ ever, including civil society influence over the negotiations.