COP26 climate change conference: When is it and where is it happening?
The upcoming COP26 summit is much-anticipated as the need to tackle climate change becomes more and more apparent.
Amidst the ongoing energy crisis and protests on the M25 by Insulate Britain, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke at the United Nations this week about the need for concrete action.
As the UK is president of COP, the conference will be held here. But which city is hosting, and when are talks taking place?
Here’s what you need to know.
When is COP26 and where will it take place?
The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties will take place in November.
Talks will take place between November 1 and November 12, 2021 at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) in Glasgow, Scotland.
The UK is presiding over the summit – and Reading MP Alok Sharma, also Minister of State, is its president.
Italy will also help to the host conference, even though it’s taking place on UK soil.
It’s called COP26 because it’s the 26th summit of its kind – with COP standing for ‘Conference of the Parties’.
Originally, COP26 was due to take place in November 2020, but was delayed due to Covid.
And though these conferences are held each year, COP26’s website says that many experts believe this one has a ‘unique urgency’.
After all, it was just five conferences ago, in 2015, that the global warming-tackling Paris Agreement was signed.
The treaty, agreed to by 196 parties, came into force in November 2016 and aims to keep the world’s rising temperature below 2 degrees celsius – ideally reaching 1.5 degrees.
Sadly, this has yet to be accomplished.
It also sets out to achieve long-term ‘climate neutrality’, by seriously reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Some 30,000 people are expected to attend, including officials from 197 countries, world leaders, and thousands of negotiators.
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