Claire O’Neill will break her silence next week on the government’s handling of COP26, ten months after she was sacked from the presidency of the UN climate summit. The BEIS select committee will also hear from the EU’s ex-lead negotiator on climate issues. The committee’s chair, Darren Jones, has written to BEIS secretary Alok Sharma expressing concern that the government is not “sufficiently clear” about what it is seeking to achieve at COP26.