Foresight News rounds up the key events that need to be in your news diary this week…

Fresh from meeting his COP successors in Egypt and the UAE, Alok Sharma delivers a keynote speech at Chatham House on the successes of the Glasgow climate summit and the UK’s plans for the remainder of its presidency. In December, Sharma warned that progress at COP26 could be undermined by a lack of collective effort from ministers, and his challenge over the coming months will be ensuring the Glasgow outcomes remain at the top of the government’s agenda so that the UK and other major economies can build on that progress in Egypt next November.

The World Economic Outlook update, which we had been expecting on 19 January, is released today instead, having been delayed to incorporate last-minute data on the effect of Omicron. IMF economic counsellor Gita Gopinath hosts a press conference to discuss the findings.