Everything you need to know from the first day of COP26Glasgow
COP26, a United Nations conference on climate change has begun in Glasgow this week, as world leaders meet to recommit to action towards slowing down global warming.Conference of the Parties is currently underway in Glasgow, bringing together world leaders to accelerate action towards the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
In the landmark Paris agreement, signed in 2015, nations committed to holding global temperature rises to “well below” 2°C above pre-industrial levels, while “pursuing efforts” to limit heating to 1.5°C. Those goals are legally binding and enshrined in the treaty. “If we don’t get serious about climate change today, it will be too late for our children to do so tomorrow,” he told the audience at the COP26 summit.
“We’ve got to halve carbon emissions this decade… we’re a long way off where we need to be,” he said in an interview with “We are not just victims to this crisis. We have been resilient beacons of hope. Pacific youth have rallied behind the cry: ‘We are not drowning, we are fighting.’ This is our warrior cry to the world.”
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