The 2021 UN climate change conference (COP26)
According to BBC News (link at the end), the 2021 UN climate change conference (COP26), scheduled from 31 October to 12 November, the event will take place in Glasgow, United Kingdom.
The purpose of the COP26 is to bring together governments from around the
world to agree coordinated action to tackle climate change, as well as to discuss and analyse the current scenario of the climate action.
The name “COP” is originated from “Conference of parties”, once since 1992 governments from all around the world join themselves in global climate meetings in order to improve joint actions to
preserve the environment. This is the 26th such meeting. So, COP26.
Tha main goal of this conference is to get closer to accomplish all the promises made under the COP21 in Paris six years ago, such as to collectively cut greenhouse emissions enough to keep the planet from heating up more than 1.5 degrees C (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit), compared with pre-industrial times.
The negotiations are executed in a “GoFundMe” way, on which each Country offer their individual and specific plans to cut heat-trapping emissions. Then, the U.N. adds them all up and calculates if that sum is enough or if a gap remains between those plans and what climate scientists say is
needed to avoid the most catastrophic effects.
According to Pete Betts, the former EU lead negotiator on climate change, “The mood of the conference is good (…).The trend towards a zero-carbon world is irreversible. The question is when we get there, and what the climate will be like by then.” This positive statement could be explained by a series of factors, as for instance:
Money: National Banks are looking to move trillions of dollars of private capital towards supporting clean technology.
Trees: More than 100 countries promised to reverse deforestation by 2030.
Methane: The plan is to cut emissions of the methane gas by 30% by 2030.
Creating markets: Forty nations led by the UK and including China, India and the US, will impose standards protocols, incentives and rules, to create markets for new clean technologies.
Source/Reference:
https://www.npr.org/2021/10/25/1047617334/cop26-summit-climate-change-un-glasgow
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