This year all eyes will be on Glasgow, Scotland, where world leaders will gather together for the two-week event to discuss the global response to the climate crisis.
is regarded as a particularly important event as it is the first time the parties will review the most up-to-date plans.The eve of the summit is used for the procedural opening of negotiations, with several leaders arriving after the end of the G20 summit.
In the afternoon leaders and businesses will talk about the innovation and deployment of clean technologies.Finance Day starts with Chancellor Rishi Sunak laying out the progress on climate finance, which channels funding from rich countries responsible for high emissions to developing countries to help them cut emissions and adapt to climate change. This has been a thorny issue as rich countries have not yet delivered the amount promised.
Two panel sessions, featuring senior government figures and international organisations, will announce and discuss new measures to scale up clean power more quickly. COP26 President Alok Sharma and Italian minister of ecological transition, Roberto Cingolani, will discuss the outcomes of a youth summit held in Milan in September.
Greta Thunberg is due to speak to tens of thousands of campaigners who will be taking part in the Coalition's Global Day for Climate Justice rally as well. The headline event will see ministers and leaders commit to building a more climate-resilient future and how they will contribute.
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