COP26, which is taking place in Glasgow, is the latest in a series of meetings through which the world’s governments attempt to deal with climate change.
COP stands for “Conference of the Parties”: the 197 parties are the UN member countries, plus a few small non-UN member countries and the EU, all of whom support the Framework Convention on Climate Change.
This was set up in 1992 to organise a global response to what most people then called the “greenhouse effect”. It’s COP26 simply because this is the 26th meeting.
The location of COP meetings changes each time. The last meeting was in Madrid in 2019. There was no COP last year due to Covid-19. The most important COP so far was the 2015 meeting in Paris, which agreed to…
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Saturday Star (Digital) - 1 Issue, 2021-11-06