Cop 26 postponed by one year. It will be held in November 2021 in Glasgow
Environment — di Andrea Barolini
The United Kingdom proposed and secured a further postponement of Cop 26 to November 2021. NGOs: “But climate action must not stop.”
Cop 26 postponed by one year. It will be held in November 2021 in Glasgow
The United Kingdom proposed and secured a further postponement of Cop 26 to November 2021. NGOs: “But climate action must not stop.”
Update 29 May – The Unfccc has accepted the United Kingdom's request to postpone the twenty-sixth United Nations Climate Change Conference (Cop 26) by one year. The event will be held in Glasgow from 1 to 12 November 2021, in agreement with the Cop leadership and the Italian authorities, who are co-organising the event alongside the London government.
The Unfccc itself also announced that from 1 to 10 June of this year a series of events will be organised with the aim "of offering governments and other actors the opportunity to meet via videoconference and continue to exchange views and information, in order to keep the process and climate action alive even in these particular circumstances".
The United Kingdom has proposed a further delay to the twenty-sixth United Nations Climate Change Conference. Cop 26, initially scheduled in Glasgow from 9 to 19 November of this year, had already been postponed once, due to the coronavirus pandemic. Since then, the London government has never indicated a new date for the event: according to information that has leaked to the British press, however, the event could have been held in the spring of 2021.
The @COP26 negotiations in Glasgow, UK, are likely to be held a full year later than planned, to allow time to bring the coronavirus pandemic under control. climatechangenews.com/2020/05/27/uk-…
The new possible dates for Cop 26: 1–12 November 2021
Now, however, the Unfccc – the United Nations framework convention responsible for organising the Cops, together with the host countries – has announced that it has received the proposal to postpone the event to November 2021.
A meeting between the United Kingdom government and the United Nations on the matter was scheduled for today – Thursday 28 May – in an attempt to settle on a new definitive date for Cop 26. Information reported by the British press indicates that the event could be scheduled for the period running from 1 to 12 November.
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"The world must not invest in yesterday's economy"
"Delaying the event," commented Rhys Gerholdt of the World Resources Institute, "is understandable, but no steps backwards on climate action can be permitted. We have shown extraordinary determination in tackling the pandemic and we need a similar approach to avoid climate catastrophe." What is needed, in fact, is to revitalise the economy and rebuild our societies "in a more sustainable, equitable, resilient and healthy way. Governments must not invest in yesterday's economy but build that of tomorrow."
Il governo UK propone il rinvio di un anno della COP26. "Ma l'azione sul clima non va rinviata".
The risk is indeed that, by postponing Cop 26 by a full year, space is left for those who would favour a recovery "at all costs" — even at the cost of undoing the efforts — insufficient as they are — made so far in the fight against climate change.