Daily COP26 briefing: today's COP26 briefing includes hydrogen-powered flights, an Architects Climate Action Network talk and Bjarke Ingels on a "hedonistic" future.
Throughout COP26, we are publishing regular updates of what's happening at the conference and surrounding events. See all our COP26 coverage here.
A sustainable future is a design challenge says Bjarke Ingels
Danish architect Bjarke Ingels has said that he believes that creating sustainable cities and a sustainable future is a design challenge in a talk hosted by energy company Ørsted to coincide with COP26.
"I don't see a sustainable future as a political dilemma and I don't see it as a typological dilemma, I really see it as a design challenge," he said. "If you can show the world that the sustainable city has ports so clean you can swim in and power plants so clean you can climb their facades and hike and ski their roofs, then why would you ever chose the non sustainable city," he continued.
"In that sense, the hedonistic and sustainable future means it is not only better for the environment, but its also better for the people inhabiting it."
British company to announce plans for hydrogen-powered flights by 2030
A new, but as yet unnamed, British company is set to unveil technology that could greatly reduce aviation's reliance on fossil fuels at COP26 today and create "clean" flights.
According to the Guardian newspaper, the company aims to create li...