Rory Stewart

And of course, he doesn't turn up to the climate conference in Brazil.

I think the change in the world, though, is unbelievable.

If you think back to your time

in government, I suppose the four big things probably would be the G7 meeting, the UNGA meeting, the G20 meeting, and COP, right, would be the big meetings this year.

So G7 was June in Canada, which basically became the G6 plus Trump.

Trump left early and went on to do some funny bilateral thing on Ukraine, whereas actually the year before, the G7 had been at the heart of all the Ukraine-Russia sanctions.

Absolutely.

Then the UN General Assembly in September was another extraordinary weird Trump fest.

It was actually used by Netanyahu in Israel as a cover for its strikes.

There was the banning of the Palestinian delegation, etc.

And now we've had this G20 COP, which America

doesn't turn up to at all.

And you've also got this other very odd thing happening, which is it isn't really that the middle powers are driving this.

Europe and the UK are playing it pretty straight.

But if you look at the G20 resolution in Johannesburg, you've got Saudi Arabia, India signing up to climate agreements, references to a lot of things which are incredibly progressive.

And at the same day,

In Cochrane, Brazil, those same countries are blocking any language about eradicating fossil fuels.

So the G20 becomes this, or G19, becomes this talking shop where the very same countries that are screwing up real progress on agreements on climate are making gentle noises about it at the other end of the world.

Because G7, as we said, is too small.

It's only a third of the world economy.