Nov 7, 2021 | COP26
This article builds on Looking to COP26: A Focus on Discussion Topics for Week 1, and delves into some of the negotiation points for a range of topics for week 2 of COP26. If you would like to find out how the negotiations went – and, crucially, whether...
Nov 2, 2021 | COP26
Conference of Youth (COY) is a meeting organised by YOUNGO (Official Youth Constituency of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC) and takes place just before the Conference of the Parties (COP) [1]. This year the 16th United Nations...
Oct 29, 2021 | COP26
ClimaTalk’s previous article, The Paris Agreement: A Focus on Unresolved Issues, delved into aspects of the Paris Agreement that were left unresolved at the end of the 25th Conference of the Parties (COP). These included Article 6 and carbon markets, funding...
Oct 23, 2021 | COP26
The Conference of the Parties (COP) usually hosts between 10,000 and 30,000 participants. This includes representatives of the Parties as well as observers from Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), the media and press, and educational institutions. The scale...
Oct 14, 2021 | COP26
Climate Change Impacts on Health Climate change introduces new health risks and has the potential to exacerbate existing health problems through both direct and indirect effects [2,3]. Changes in the intensity and frequency of extreme weather events such as heat waves...
Sep 27, 2021 | COP26
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP) is held once a year for two weeks. However, as discussed in ClimaTalk’s article ‘What happens in between COPs?’ many other discussions and...
