COP26 and the fight to tackle global emissions

The 2015 Paris agree­ment aimed to mit­i­gate the impacts of cli­mate change by keep­ing glob­al increas­es in tem­per­a­ture below 1.5C above pre-indus­tri­al lev­els. Yet the world is already at 1.2C of warm­ing with very few coun­tries bring­ing in cli­mate poli­cies that will lim­it the ris­es. The UN’s COP26 cli­mate con­fer­ence, cur­rent­ly tak­ing place in Glas­gow, aims to find a route to net-zero emis­sions and more strin­gent tar­gets that could help to lim­it the cli­mate cri­sis.