International Cop26 negotiations entered the second week, and political negotiations on promoting climate action became the focus.
This is what may happen this week.
The high-level segment of the two-week meeting will see the arrival of environment, energy, climate and other ministers to take charge of the political phase of the negotiations.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, ministers of countries whose leaders did not speak in the first week of the summit can step up to the podium and explain their position on climate change. Russia New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey will speak.
– Negotiation, negotiation, negotiation
Although in the first week of the United Nations summit, most of the world’s attention was focused on the attendance of leaders and major announcements on protecting forests, phasing out coal, reducing methane, and halting fossil fuel financing. Time for negotiation.
With ministers leading the political negotiations, most of the hard work will be done this week to finalize some Paris Agreement Make it operable and effective, and provide funds for poor countries to deal with climate change and solve their losses and damages.
The negotiator is trying to finalize a “disguise decision” Glasgow This will shed light on how countries will close the gap between their commitments to reduce emissions under the Paris Agreement and the gap needed to avoid a dangerous temperature rise of more than 1.5 degrees Celsius.
As countries push for the result of competing with each other, the atmosphere may become more tense, and it is likely that there will be long nights and a much later end than expected on Friday.
The “Theme Day” program of Cop26 organized by the United Kingdom as the host is still continuing, and it is expected that there will be more announcements about the country’s and corporate commitments in various fields.
Pay attention to the promise of switching to electric vehicles on transportation day (that is, Wednesday), while other days focus on adaptation, loss and damage, gender, science and innovation, and cities and regions.
Last week, world leaders, royals and this strange Hollywood star rushed to Glasgow to attend the Cop26 summit.This week is expected to include former U.S. presidents Barack Obama
It remains to be seen whether the prime minister Boris Johnson Will be back at the end of the two-week summit to bring the negotiations to an end or to welcome any agreements reached.
There may be ongoing reviews of the way the Cop26 conference is managed during the pandemic, and whether the United Nations and British organizers have taken sufficient measures to make it accessible and inclusive.
In the first week, a large number of people and long queues tried to pass the security check-this did not fully meet the social distancing requirements that the organizers tried to impose internally. The number of people in the negotiation room and activities was restricted, so they were criticized.
Although everyone is required to make daily lateral movement requests, wear masks and maintain social distancing, there are still people who are sick or tested positive-although it is not clear how many people there are.
