The 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) began on Monday at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) in Glasgow with a mission to unite the world to tackle climate change and its adverse impacts.
The United Kingdom is hosting this year’s COP26 event where world leaders have gathered with the aim of securing global net zero carbon emissions by mid-century and keeping global warming below 1.5ºC.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who is also the President of the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF), joined the event with other world leaders.
On her arrival at the programme venue, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson welcomed her.
Hasina arrived in Scotland on Sunday (Oct 31) to attend the conference dubbed the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties. Her daughter Saima Wazed Hossain, Thematic Ambassador of CVF, is also accompanying her.
Hasina will deliver her speech after the inauguration ceremony of COP26.
The first COP meeting was held in Berlin, Germany in 1995, and was dubbed COP1.
At COPs, nations come together to assess global progress towards tackling climate change.
The COP26 climate summit comes six years after the Paris Agreement was signed by over 190 countries to limit the rise of global temperatures to well below 2C with a view of reaching 1.5C. According to the UN, global temperatures are currently set to rise to 2.7C.
Scientists are clear that emissions must halve by 2030 to keep the aims made in Paris within reach.
Source: United News of Bangladesh