COP26 climate change conference begins in Glasgow

World leaders unite for the 26th climate change summit

The United Kingdom has just begun hosting what is being dubbed the most crucial climate conference the world has ever seen.

Held in Glasgow, the goal of the event is to keep global warming at 1.5 degrees or below by 2100, with the world currently on track for a 2.7 degree warming by this time..

Nearly 200 nations are being asked to increase their carbon emissions targets and reduce their global footprints.

The President of COP26 Alok Sharma says the COP26 climate summit is the world’s last, best hope to hit the 1.5-degree target.

This conference will hopefully lead to major changes regarding how we conduct our day-to-day lives, with discussions about the types of cars we drive, the power we use to heat our homes and how we live sustainably into the future.

COP26 is important because fossil fuels created by humans are resulting in more and more extreme weather events, which could eventually lead to many parts of the world being uninhabitable.

This conference is about pushing member nations to agree to keep global warming below that critical 1.5-degree level and putting former climate promises made at previous conferences into action.

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson says there are no longer any excuses for the world’s procrastination

There are still fears that pledges made at Glasgow’s COP26 will be too little, too late

Some scientists saying the world will breach the 1.5 degree mark between 2030 and 2040.

Climate activist Daniel Bleakley says Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison is “lying to the world”

“Delay is the new denial”

The Australian Institute Climate Director Richie Merzian is in Glasgow for the climate summit and says Australia’s action on climate change needs to increase.

This all follows the G20 summit which was held in Rome over the weekend, where President Biden has just addressed the media saying he is disappointed by China and Russia falling to show up on issues of climate.

Both Xi JinPing and Vladimir Putin will not be in attendance at Glasgow, despite being two of the world’s biggest emitters.