EMERGENCY ON PLANET EARTH

COP26 is the latest United Nations conference to focus on climate change, meeting in Glasgow at the end of October 2021 after being postponed due to the pandemic. This ‘Conference of the Parties’ convenes in the wake of a damning report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which found that human-driven climate change is widespread, irreversible and intensifying, and will drive extreme weather, migration and extinction events from now on. The UN chief declared it “a Code Red for humanity”.