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COP26, supposed to take place in Glasgow this year, has been postponed to 2021 because of coronavirus

Reuters • April 2, 2020, 07:11:35 IST
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Another summit on preserving threatened species, that would’ve taken place in China has also been pushed to next year.

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COP26, supposed to take place in Glasgow this year, has been postponed to 2021 because of coronavirus

A climate summit that had been due to take place in Glasgow in November has been postponed to 2021 because of the coronavirus outbreak, officials said on Wednesday, throwing a new element of uncertainty into talks to tackle global warming. With the world currently on track for catastrophic temperature increases, the two-week summit had been supposed to galvanise renewed international commitment to an accord brokered in Paris in 2015 aimed at stabilising the Earth’s climate.

[caption id=“attachment_7787371” align=“alignnone” width=“1280”]The COP25 meetings was extended because the leaders could not come to a decision on the carbon markets. Image creditL Flickr/John Englart COP26 has been postponed as the UK is struggling to cope with the coronavirus. Image: Flickr/John Englart[/caption]

But with the British hosts and other countries struggling to contain the coronavirus pandemic, which has brought swathes of the global economy to a standstill, officials decided to push the summit back to give governments more time to prepare. Ending widespread speculation that the summit would be postponed, Finnish environment minister Krista Mikkonen said the climate summit and a separate summit on preserving threatened species, which had been due to take place in Kunming, China in October, were both being pushed back to next year. “Glasgow’s COP26 climate conference will move from November to next year due to the global coronavirus situation,” Mikkonen said in a statement, quoting U.N. climate officials. With financial markets also in turmoil, hopes that 2020 would prove a pivotal year for climate diplomacy and action to reverse accelerating extinctions of plant, animal and insect species have rapidly faded. Nevertheless, some investors, diplomats and campaigners welcomed the postponement, saying it could buy governments time to prepare a more successful outcome than might be possible in the face of a global pandemic and turmoil in financial markets.

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