The Glasgow Climate Change Conference convened after a year-long postponement due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. The COP26 session was originally scheduled to take place from 9-19 November 2020 but was held between 31st October and 12th November 2021. The summit brought together over 120 Heads of State and Government.

Parties adopted the Glasgow Climate Pact: a series of three overarching cover decisions that provide an overall political narrative of the Conference of the Parties (COP). For the first time in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process, there is a reference to phasing down unabated coal power and phasing out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies.

This was the biggest COP since the Paris Agreement in 2015. Then, after years of negotiations, governments pledged to keep the rise in global average temperatures to well below 2 degrees - preferably 1.5°C – above pre-industrial levels. COP26 was particularly critical, because countries aren’t doing enough to meet this pledge. The UN has crunched the numbers and confirmed that even when you combine all the current climate commitments from different countries, they will put us on track for 2.7°C of warming by the end of the century.

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