This year’s meeting, known as the COP26 summit, had been billed as the most important climate change summit since the 2015 talks that produced the Paris Agreement. The summit will be rescheduled to November 1 to 12, 2021, the UN’s climate body decided, dates proposed by the British government. Negotiators from bloc of less developed countries also urged governments not to use the pandemic to delay stronger climate plans, but instead to boost renewable energy, conservation and other green measures as economies recover. This year’s COP26 summit was supposed to serve as a deadline for governments to commit to the more-aggressive emissions-cutting goals needed to deliver the Paris Agreement’s target to cap global temperature increases at 2 degrees Celsius and aim for 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times. Current pledges put the world on track for roughly 3 degrees Celsius of warming this century.

Source: Dhaka Tribune May 28, 2020 21:11 UTC