And, finally tonight, COP26, It's the world's largest Climate change conference, one that unites climate justice advocates from all walks of life, a summit that's supposed to pressure governments into extending their maximum best efforts to save the climate, before it's too late.
And today as the first week of COP26 winds down, that focus was on clean renewable energy, an essential alternative to the coal-power that's been choking the planet.
Cherisse Halsall is in Glasgow Scotland and brings us this story.
COP 26's word of the day was energy, that's because 190 countries made the pledge to consign coal to the history books and to rapidly increase the use of clean power for the 2030's
Still China and the U.S. are lagging behind, and in the Caribbean, the challenge in making the switch will pivot whether these newer, cleaner forms of energy are accessible, affordable and reliable.
Hon. Orlando Habet - Minister of Sustainable development
"We don't use coal in Belize and so when we see what the developing countries are doing, and some of them don't want to move out from it, and some of them are telling you that we need 40 years of transition period, then we ask ourselves what our transition period? Because while we still importing fuel for energy and also for transport especially, eventually when these large countries start to produce their electric vehicles, we might be able to purchase some but when the US stop using their fuel vehicles, where do you think they will go? They will go Belize because that's the easy channel to go, so we continue becoming the junk yard and dump site for these vehicles, so we have to look at it from that stand point."
Kenrick Williams - CEO, Ministry of Sustainable development
"So energy is not one of those contentious issues as part of the COP and the outcomes but it is very important in terms of the emissions reductions which we're trying to achieve as part of the overall Paris agreement and commitment. So, for Belize we have made commitments in terms of our nationally determined contributions, how is that we are going to contribute to the overall reduction in emissions. Remember, every country have to do their part in the reduction of emissions to ensure overall we reducing this 1.5 degrees Celsius. We committed to, as much as our sector is renewable, we committed to even more transition to renewable energy, so in our national determined contribution, we committed to a transition to 75% renewable in solar, in hydro, in biomass. So for example, for co-generation plant, improving the capacity of that plant for instance and ensuring that we're moving towards that renewable energy mix. So what we want to do today as part of the energy discussion, how to support the financing for those, what are some of the key sectors in which we can reduce emissions, how can we strengthen our energy system because it's not just moving to renewable energy source, when you look at the existing sources, there's also some issues in which we can address. When you look at transmission and distribution of energy for example, our light post, our mechanisms, we can reduce emission loss, we can power loss and when we do that then we improve our efficiency of the existing energy system, so that in the end we reduce dependency on diesel powered electricity for example."
"All of us have a role to play, the entire 7.9 billion people have a role and I know we're looking to our political leaders for that direction but we recognize investment and I think all of us have to invest in ourselves and the wide community can make a great investment in infrastructure, in technology but also more critical, human capacity because human capacity is really what's going to drive the energy transition at the source. We should create an innovative business model, finance model that will support the global agenda and the agenda is where we want to get in 2030, where we want to get in 2050, so all of these things will require all of us to play a part, so you are right, there could be an opportunity for us given what we are doing. One of the interesting things about the region is that we are an island, why don't we consider earth as an island? So you can actually see us as the example to transition to the global village."
And That Global village can only be made up of a new proactive generation but more and more and COP young people, the ones poised to inherit the earth are asking what the politicians are really doing at COP and whether any of it will really make an impact.
Greta Thunberg - Protestor
"This COP26 is for far like the previous COPS and that has led us no where, they have led us no where. Inside COP they are just politicians and people in power pretending to take our future seriously, pretending to take the present serious of people who have been affected by the climate crisis. Change is not going to come from inside there, that is not leadership, this is leadership, this is what leadership looks like. We say no more bla bla bla, no more exploitation of people and nature and the planet, no more exploitation, no more of what ever the they're doing inside there. We're sick and tired of it and we're going to make the change, whether they like it or not, they have going for too long and we're not going to let them get away anymore. What do we want?"
Crowd
"Climate justice!"
Greta Thunberg
"When do we want it?"
Crowd
"Now!"
Greta Thunberg "No more bla bla bla, no more bla bla bla!"
Crowd "No more bla bla bla!"
That was two days ago in London but the spirit of that rebellion was still alive and well today within COP26's blue Zone where protest is prohibited.
Indeed for many, this COP is already a COP out one that's failing to deliver the hard choices and one that's still allowing major emitters to get away with crimes against the climate.
And tonight we can tell you that many of the countries that missed their NDC targets, countries like China and Iraq, got them in tonight just under the wire. The news however isn't the greatest because while emissions in those countries are expected to go down they are not yet at that all-important 1.5 degrees Celsius, and that means that despite concerted efforts we are currently still headed for climate disaster.
