The global climate summit that wrapped up in Glasgow, Scotland on 13 November, 2021 is known as COP26, with COP standing for Conference of Parties. In diplomatic parlance, ‘the parties” refers to the 197 nations that agreed to a new environmental pact, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, at a meeting in 1992. That year the signatory nations ratified the treaty, which aims to combat “dangerous human interference with the climate system ” and stabilise levels of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere. This was the twenty-sixth time countries have gathered under the convention. Hence COP26.
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