YORK: Climate summit COP26, the biggest gathering of climate change advocates and experts in over four decades due to take place in Glasgow, Scotland in November, is “our last hope” of preventing runaway temperature increase, the president of the event was to say in a major speech on Friday. COP26 will bring together climate negotiators from 196 countries and the European Union, along with businesses, experts and world leaders. Sharma was to warn that the summit was “our last hope” of keeping temperature rises below 1.5C, beyond which scientists believe uncontrollable climate change will occur. There are fears that some countries will be unable to attend the talks in person due to ongoing outbreaks. Adapting natural habitats to cope with the impacts of climate change and 2mobilizing climate finance” will be among the priorities in November, he will add.

Source: Manila Times May 14, 2021 16:40 UTC