COP26: Afterthoughts and Outcomes.
Thought to be one of the most significant climate events of the last few years, COP26 has brought together world leaders, activists, and delegates from all over the world to discuss solutions and plans to manage the ever-worsening climate crisis.
We’re now at the other side of COP26. The buildup over the last few months, as well as the two-week conference in Glasgow, shone a light on the climate crisis that we now face.
“COP26 was an amazing, with the lead up and the two week-long event in Glasgow building the awareness with the public at large (particularly in the UK & I) of the need for each of us to be more sustainability. There is no doubt about that.” - says Michael O’Hara, MD of DataSolutions and co-founder of Techies Go Green.
“There has been significant disappointment in many quarters about the lack of commitments to take decisive climate actions at COP26 especially knowing that current emissions in 2022 are expected to exceed levels needed to limit global temperatures to 1.5 degrees centigrade.”
“However, climate change needs behaviour change and to do this we need to change people’s hearts and minds and thereby their behaviour. COP26, I believe was a big step in the right direction in terms of achieving behaviour change which will ultimately lead to a different result for sustainability. This, behaviour change is what Techies Go Green wants to achieve and with our signatories support we will hopefully make a difference.”
You can see full details of all the COP26 outcomes right here on the COP26 website. But see below some key outcomes and statements that have come from COP26.
These statements and declarations are the high-level outcomes from the World Leaders Summit and presidency theme days of the two-week programme of COP26.
“Climate change needs behaviour change, and to do this we need to change peoples hearts and minds and thereby their behaviour.
COP26, I believe was a big step in the right direction in terms of achieving behaviour change which will ultimately lead to a different result for sustainability.”
World leaders emphasise the critical and interdependent roles of forests of all types, biodiversity and sustainable land use in enabling the world to meet its sustainable development goals; to help achieve a balance between anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and removal by sinks; to adapt to climate change; and to maintain other ecosystem services. (2/11/21)
Provision of US$12 billion for forest-related climate finance between 2021-2025. (2/11/21)
Supporting the protection and sustainable management of the Congo Basin forests - working collectively to halt and reverse forest loss and land degradation by 2030 while delivering sustainable development and promoting an inclusive rural transformation (2/11/21)
Advancing Support for Indigenous Peoples’ and Local Communities’ Tenure Rights and their Forest Guardianship Glasgow COP26, November 2021. (2/11/21)
COP26 World Leaders launch Breakthrough Agenda - a commitment to work together internationally this decade to accelerate the development and deployment of the clean technologies and sustainable solutions needed to meet our Paris Agreement goals, ensuring they are affordable and accessible for all. (2/11/21)
To help deliver the vision of One Sun One World One Grid, Global Leaders have resolved to combine efforts and create a more inter-connected global grid. The next step is to develop an action agenda for global cooperation on this agenda. (2/11/21)
At COP21, government leaders launched Mission Innovation (MI) and Bill Gates launched Breakthrough Energy (BE), both committing to accelerate investment into clean energy technologies and stimulate collaboration between the public and private sectors. BE and MI are expanding their partnership and will work together to advance public and private sector collaboration to accelerate critical clean energy technologies towards commercialization. (3/11/21)
Statement On International Public Support For The Clean Energy Transition (4/11/21)
Global Coal to Clean Power Statement: Leaders recognised the imperative to urgently scale-up the deployment of clean power to accelerate the energy transition. They commit to work together to make clean power the most affordable and accessible option globally, with ensuing economic and health benefits as we build back better from the COVID pandemic. (4/11/21)
As the world recovers from COVID-19, we aim to deliver sustainable, green and inclusive economic growth to meet the challenge of decarbonising our economies, in line with limiting the global average temperature increase to 1.5°C above the preindustrial levels. (4/11/21)
The Global Action Agenda on Transforming Agricultural Innovation is the outcome of the Transforming Agriculture Innovation Systems for People, Nature and Climate which was launched by Lord Goldsmith at the Climate Adaptation Summit in January 21. (6/11/21)
The Breakthrough Agenda launched at the World Leaders Summit commits countries to work together to make clean technologies and sustainable solutions the most affordable, accessible and attractive option in each emitting sector globally before 2030. (9/11/21)
22 Governments and the European Commission committed to four new ‘Missions’ to catalyse investment to accelerate technologies to facilitate urban transitions, eliminate emissions from industry, enable carbon dioxide removal and produce renewable fuels, chemicals, and materials. (9/11/21)
COP26 declaration on accelerating the transition to 100% zero emission cars and vans (10/11/21)
Zero emission vehicles transition council: 2022 action plan (11/11/21)
The COP26 Health Programme has been developed and delivered by the UK government as the Presidency of COP26, with its partners including the World Health Organization (WHO), Health Care Without Harm (HCWH), the UNFCCC Climate Champions, and the Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA). (12/11/21)
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