Hello and welcome to Business Weekly with Lucy Burton.

On the show today, we'll be getting the latest on spiraling global gas prices.

What's causing the rise, who's been affected, and why are so many small gas companies at risk?

We'll also hear from the Swedish songwriter and entrepreneur

who wants to change the way artists are credited for their work. First, though, world leaders

descended on New York this week for the UN General Assembly. It's the last time the group

will come together before the decisive UN climate meeting COP 26, which begins in a little over a month's time.

So it's perhaps no surprise that climate was right up at the top of the agenda.

The British Prime Minister, who holds the COP presidency this year, called on the world to get its act together.

My friends, the adolescence of humanity is coming to an end and must come to an end.

We're approaching that critical turning point in less than two months in just over 40 days

when we must show that we are capable of learning and maturing and finally taking responsibility

for the destruction we are inflicting not just upon our planet, but upon ourselves.

It's time for humanity to grow up.

The urgency of this message was underlined when the Assembly heard from Samuel Elonio,

Tuvalu's ambassador to the UN.

I have to say that Tuvalu is the most vulnerable country to climate change,

and I say that conviction.

We really very much depend on global solidarity on addressing this issue

because we need everybody, every hands on board.

My country, as one of the atoll, the four atoll nations in the world, is no more than two meters above sea level.

The last UNF triple C report estimated that we will be submerged in a hundred years. So if we cannot adapt to climate change,

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