Sustainability and COP26
In November, the UK, together with partners Italy, will host an event many believe to be the world’s best last chance to get runaway climate change under control.
COP26 is the 2021 United Nations climate change conference
For nearly three decades the UN has been bringing together almost every country on earth for global climate summits – called COPs – which stands for ‘Conference of the Parties’. In that time climate change has gone from being a fringe issue to a global priority.
The Summit in Glasgow this November has four declared goals:
Mitigation to the effects of climate change as it is now
Adaptation to the effects of climate change as they are now
Finance to allow both mitigation and adaptation to the efffects of climate change
Collaboration in global partnertships to adapt to and mitigate the effects of global climate change.
In more recent years and partly to support the efforts of multiple COP events, the UN has also developed the Sustainable Development Goals which inform many of the changes that the world requires to slow or even lower the rate at which it is heating.
In the video at the top of this post you can find some Drawnalism towards the challenges which the UN SDGs define usefully for the global challenges we all face. We will also be publishing the individual SDGs day by day in the run-up to the start of the event on Oct 31.
The United Nations SDG permissions team has asked us to make clear that; "The content of this publication has not been approved by the United Nations and does not reflect the views of the United Nations or its officials or Member States”. We are very happy to do so.
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Drawnalism will be in Glasgow for a part of the COP26 event with one of our partners, OpenUK.