The temperature records continue to tumble and the key tipping points for our planet's climate are racing towards us and it is our total failure to rapidly set the fossil fuel industry on a phase-out path that is to blame.
Scotland has some of the toughest targets to cut carbon emissions and can have an influence greater than its size when the United Nations summit is held in Glasgow next year.
It clearly makes sense to move Cop26 to next year, but this must not be allowed to quietly slide into creating a two-year gap between climate talks, instead 2021 must be a year of concerted international action on the climate crisis.
