Why COP26 is an important platform

Expectations are high for COP26, which is being held in the city of Glasgow in Scotland this year. Policymakers from across the world have gathered to discuss climate change and the ways in which countries can meet the targets set at the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris in 2015. There, the majority of the world's countries signed a new climate agreement which stated that the global temperature increase must not increase by more than two degrees and that every effort would be made to keep the increase to less than 1.5 degrees.

The UN Climate Change Conferences are not a new phenomenon. They have been held for the last three decades, but the increasing changes in the climate have transformed them from a meetings affecting just a few countries into a summit dealing with matters of global concern.