UN Climate Change Conference 2020
| UN Climate Change Conference 2020 | |
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| place | SEC Arena Glasgow , Scotland
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| date | Originally planned for the beginning of December 2020, postponed to November 1 - 12, 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic |
| Members of the UNFCCC | |
The UN Climate Change Conference 2020 ( English United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 26th Conference of the Parties ), short- COP 26 , to the 26th UN Climate Change Conference to be. She was for November 2020 Scottish Glasgow planned but due to the COVID-19 pandemic postponed until November 1 to 12 2021st
The conference is being organized by Great Britain in partnership with Italy. The British Prime Minister Boris Johnson appointed on February 13, 2020 Alok Sharma as president of the conference, in addition to his new role as Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) ( " Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Industry Strategy"). Until then, Sharma was Secretary of State for International Development.
The COP 26 should also be the 16th meeting on the Kyoto Protocol (English 16th Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol in 1997 , shortly CMP 16 ) and the fifth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Be an Agreement (CMA 3); it is the follow-up conference of COP 25 in December 2019 in Madrid, Spain .
The SEC-Arena exhibition and convention center in Glasgow is or was intended as the conference venue ( Scottish Event Campus ); At the end of March / beginning of April 2020, however, this was converted into an emergency hospital for people with COVID-19 .
preparation
The 11th Petersberg Climate Dialogue , which serves as preparation at ministerial level, will take place on a digital level for the first time at the end of April 2020 with around 35 participating countries due to the global COVID-19 pandemic ; strongly improved climate protection commitments by the international community should or must be achieved in order to still be able to achieve the United Nations' two-degree target .
Postponement after 2021
On April 1, 2020 , the Finnish Environment Minister Krista Mikkonen posted on the microblogging service Twitter that the COP 26 should be postponed to autumn of the following year due to the COVID-19 pandemic . A little later, the British government confirmed the joint decision between the UN climate secretariat and the two organizers, Great Britain and Italy.
The postponement was rated as a "major setback for climate protection ", as the World Climate Change Conference 2020 in Scotland was considered the most important in a long time to improve the points decided in Paris in 2015 to limit, control and manage global warming , such as the 1.5 degree target . On the other hand, the hope was expressed that a deselection of Donald Trump in the US presidential elections in 2020 in November 2020 could help the postponed COP 26 to a great start.
See also
Web links
- ukcop26.org
- Badische-zeitung.de March 5, 2020, Daniela Weingärtner, Christian Mihatsch: Fierce headwind (strong criticism from environmentalists of the climate law aimed at by the EU)
supporting documents
- ↑ Cop26 climate talks in Glasgow will be delayed by a year, UN confirms . In: The Guardian , May 28, 2020. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- ↑ Initial. Retrieved March 29, 2020 (it-IT).
- ↑ Why are we hosting the summit? Retrieved March 29, 2020 (UK English).
- ↑ COP26 President UN Address. March 9, 2020, accessed March 29, 2020 (UK English).
- ↑ Alok Sharma appointed COP26 President. February 18, 2020, accessed March 29, 2020 (UK English).
- ↑ SEC: SEC. Retrieved April 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Covid-19 - Petersberg Climate Dialogue to be conducted digitally due to the coronavirus. Retrieved on March 29, 2020 (German).
- ↑ a b DER SPIEGEL: Corona crisis: UN climate summit in Glasgow postponed from 2021 - DER SPIEGEL - Wissenschaft. Retrieved April 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Badische Zeitung: UN climate conference in Glasgow postponed due to Corona - top topics - Badische Zeitung. Retrieved April 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Bernhard Pötter: Virus drives out climate conference: Hot autumn even without Glasgow . In: The daily newspaper: taz . April 3, 2020, ISSN 0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed April 3, 2020]).