2020 will be a crucial year for the fate of the fight against climate change. Following the failure of the twenty-fifth United Nations World Climate Conference (Cop 25), held in Madrid in December and presided over by Chile, it will be necessary to accelerate on numerous fronts if the objectives set by the Paris Agreement are to be met. In particular, governments will need to submit new – and more ambitious – pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Otherwise, it will be impossible to limit the rise in average global temperature to a maximum of 2 degrees Celsius by the end of the century compared to pre-industrial levels.

Italy co-organises Cop 26 together with the United Kingdom

The road ahead will be long and complex. It will pass through the June session of the Unfccc, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which organises the Cops. It will continue with the pre-Cop to be held in October in Milan, given that Italy is co-organising Cop 26 together with the United Kingdom. And it will conclude, precisely, with the twenty-sixth UN Conference, scheduled from 9 to 20 November in Glasgow, Scotland. In a context that, in all likelihood, will be defined by the completion of Brexit, with London's departure from the European Union.

Friends of the Earth Scotland 🌎 @FoEScot

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Campaigners call for Glasgow Climate Summit to be free of fossil fuel lobbyists
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If Cop 26 fails to reignite, five years on, the momentum that the international community had imparted to the fight against climate change with Cop 21 in Paris, it will represent a point of no return for the Earth. It will indeed be virtually impossible to avert a climate catastrophe in the coming decades.

UK Government Scotland @UKGovScotland

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Climate change and saving lives is our priority. The UK will co-host the important UN climate change summit #COP26 in Glasgow this year.

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Cop 27 is expected to be held in Africa in 2021

Glasgow, then, will truly represent the last train available. Which will then lead to Cop 27, to be held in all likelihood in Africa, though it is not yet known in which country. Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has put forward its candidacy.