Alok Sharma says countries must deliver on their climate change promises

Alok Sharma says countries must deliver on their climate change promises

In his last interview as president of the UN's COP climate summit, Alok Sharma has told Sky News that multilateralism "will only continue to work if countries deliver on the promises that they've made".

Mr Sharma, who today handed over the presidency of the UN's COP26 climate summit programme to his counterpart at the start of the COP27 meeting in Egypt, said: "That is what I've been hammering home during this year with world leaders, is that you made commitments.

"You made commitments to phase down coal, you made commitments to come back and revise your emission reduction targets, developed countries made commitments on more financial support to developing nations.