During the first two weeks in November 2021 the eyes and hopes of the world will be focused on Glasgow. Around 200 of the world’s leaders and their representatives will be attending the 26th meeting of the Conference of the Parties, an event known as COP26, being hosted jointly by the UK and Italy. In 1994 many countries signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change at the first of this series of meetings established to tackle the issue of climate change.
Around the world the effects of the atmospheric build-up of greenhouse gases — particularly carbon dioxide (CO2) — are increasingly being felt. The rising temperatures this increase is creating has caused Arctic sea-ice to shrink, global sea levels to rise, and erratic weather events to become more common.
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