COP26 Summit: the beginning of change
- Olympus News
- Jan 3, 2022
- 2 min read
November 7th, 2021
By: Bai Lu Yi Fei
The 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (also known as COP26). A total of 39,509 participants will be attending from over 4,972 governments and organizations. The parties include the United States of America, Indonesia, France, Argentina, and many more. While this event may not determine the exact outcome of our planet, it may certainly be one of our last hopes in getting something under control.
For the past few decades, the UN has gathered almost all the countries in the world to gatherings called Conference of Parties (or commonly known as COPs). This is the 26th COP summit and it is believed to be a very important event that could greatly impact our futures. The summit will be hosted by the UK, in partnership with Italy, and will take place in Glasgow, UK.
In 2015, COP21 took place in Paris, France. In a momentous display, all the countries strived to limit global warming and aim for a 1.5 degrees decrease in Celcius. The parties agreed to meet again in 2020 (delayed due to the pandemic) with updated plans to reduce the rising temperatures. This is called the Paris Agreement, the countries participating would have national plans showing how they would reduce emissions, known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).
So basically, COP26 is a second chance for Earth to get its crap together. The plans in the Paris Agreement were not carried out exactly, thus, we did not come close to limiting global warming by the 1.5 degrees decrease that we had hoped for.
The goal of COP26 is to reach a net zero in the climate crisis by the mid-century, protect natural habitats and communities as well as convince countries to go through with the promise of investing $100 billion in climate finance. A lot is to be done, this will only work if all the government and nongovernment parties work together.
Don’t forget to reduce, reuse and recycle, kids!
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