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Looking back on COP26

After a summer of flooding in central Europe, wildfires in southern Europe, USA and Australia, continued record ice melt in polar regions and devastating drought in Africa, the UN Climate Conference known as COP26 got underway in Glasgow on 1 November 2021. What did the conference achieve?

Negotiations took place inside the OVO Hydro Stadium

Over 25,000 delegates from 197 countries and 120 leaders came together for COP26 to attempt to reach an agreement to curtail the effects of global warming, which have caused the changes in the world’s climate and the resulting devastating disasters of the previous few months.

The goals of the conference were to agree on emissions of greenhouse gases. The primary goal was to secure global net-zero emissions by 2050 to keep temperature rises to a figure below 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels by:

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