The 2021 UN climate change conference (COP26) kicked off on Monday (1 November) in Glasgow, with governments meeting to coordinate how to tackle climate change.
Originally scheduled for 2020, the meeting was postponed by one year owing to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The governments will check on their progress compared with the 2015 Paris Agreement's goal of keeping global warming to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit it to 1.5°C.
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Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist who worked for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit.