The 26th UN Climate Change Conference was taken place in November 2021 in Glasgow. After 13 days of intense negotiations, 200 countries reached an agreement on the Glasgow Climate Pact, which will accelerate climate action this decade and completed the Paris Rulebook. This week, listen to Ethan Elkind and Ken Alex, the Executive Producers of Climate Break, about the major outcomes of the conference. For a transcript, please visit https://climatebreak.org/what-you-need-to-know-about-cop26/
For a transcript, please visit https://climatebreak.org/what-you-need-to-know-about-cop26/
Ken: The COP is intended to be a review after the Paris agreement, to get nations, to renew their commitments and to really increase ambition in light of the fact that we’re not getting to the Paris goals.
Ethan: The latest Conference of the Parties ended on November 12, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. It is the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference. I sat down with Ken Alex, Executive Producer of Climate Break, to talk about it.
Ken: The world agreed to limit warming to two degrees and to aim, to try to limit it to 1.5 degrees. The big set of issues this year really grows out of what’s called the Paris of rule book. Paris had a number of focuses and agreements, but there were no details associated with quite a few of them. Some of the bigger ones include mechanisms to set up an international carbon trading market. There is a lot of discussion about money for loss and damage for countries that have already been impacted and will be impacted further, and a hundred billion dollar annual fund that was agreed to in Paris, but has not, come to fruition.
Ethan: Coming out of the conference, the US and the EU developed a methane pledge that was signed by over 105 nations to reduce methane emissions by 30% by 2050. Advocates have also committed to working to retire the 2500 remaining coal fired power plants around the world.
Ethan: For more information on COP26, please visit climatebreak.org, or wherever you get your podcast. I’m Ethan Elkind, and this was Climate Break.