Earth ‘too big to fail’, says environmental activist

The sun rises behind an oil platform in the North Sea (Jane Barlow/PA)

The Earth is “too big to fail”, an environmental activist has told MSPs as she pointed to Covid-19 and the financial crash as evidence of the ability of governments to raise finance when necessary.

During Cop26 in Glasgow, former Bank of England governor Mark Carney announced a £95 trillion package of private finance to support efforts to tackle climate change.