Eligible COP26 attendees are expected to receive their UK-sponsored Covid-19 jabs this week, but the Climate Action Network says it is too late
. It said “vaccine apartheid”, including by the UK, was to blame for the fact that only 2% of people in Africa had been vaccinated to date, compared with a rate of more than 70% in the COP26 host country.
“Vaccine inequity, unaffordable accommodation, travel challenges and new surges in the Covid-19 pandemic will lock out huge numbers of developing country delegates from the UN climate talks set to take place in November,” CAN said. “There has always been an inherent power imbalance within the UN climate talks, between rich and poor nations, and this is now compounded by the health crisis.
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