World leaders need to come up with much more than “hot air” at the United Nations’ Climate Change Conference (COP26) in November if the planet is to have any chance of cooling down, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday.

COP26, which will be held in Glasgow, Scotland, is important as it could accelerate measures by the world’s biggest polluters to tackle the climate change which activists, scientists and world leaders say could ultimately endanger the planet.

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Jeff Bezos is throwing his weight — and wealth — behind the fight against climate change months after Amazon employees publicly pressured him and the company to do more to address the issue.

The Amazon (AMZN) CEO on Monday announced a new fund to back scientists, activists and organizations working to mitigate the impact of climate change. Bezos will commit $10 billion “to start,” he said in an Instagram post.

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The future of solar panels may lie in coffee. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Solargiga Energy in China recently published the results of research in which they saw improved thermal stability of perovskite solar cells and their efficiency increasing from 17% to 20%. This was achieved by applying caffeine on the perovskite layer.

The idea began as a joke over morning coffee, the researchers said in an interview. “One day, as we were discussing perovskite solar cells, our colleague Rui Wang said: ‘If we need coffee to boost our energy then what about perovskites?

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