A Glimpse into the COP26 Summit

SavePlanetEarth Director Imran Ali with “Island Boy” Alman at COP26. An inspirational representative of the next generation making his voice heard. He is on a mission to spread awareness on Climate Change.

After skipping a year of the annually-held United Nations Climate Change Conference due to the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic, the latest Conference of the Parties — also known this year as COP26 — commenced in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, taking place between October 31 and November 12, and overseen by British politician Alok Sharma. As made obvious by the name alone, the focal point behind each conference is addressing and tackling climate change through ideas and resolutions.

Since its debut in Berlin, Germany in 1995, COP summits are typically held once per year (except for 2001 in which two were held), with some even taking place in previous host countries (albeit with different cities). These summits (which are held concurrently with its counterpart — the CMP summits, which commenced in 2005) are conducted under the framework of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), where its member nations — or parties — discuss greenhouse gas mitigations and other issues pertinent to climate change. This was where the famous Kyoto Protocol (COP3, 1997) and the Paris Agreement (COP21, 2015) materialized.

Saying that the outcome of each summit should be regarded as more crucial than its predecessors… shouldn’t be an overstatement. As the planet undergoes drastic changes — worsened more by manmade than natural implications — life on…