COP is an annual meeting where member states of the United Nations convene to assess progress in dealing with climate change and make a plan for climate action within the guidelines of the UNFCCC. (The formal name for the meetings is the Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework ...
Nevertheless, the meeting is crucial. COP29 has been dubbed the “finance COP”. The central focus is likely to be a much bigger target for climate finance – a mechanism by which wealthy countries provide funding to help poorer countries with their clean energy transit...
Our role as a convener during COP29 was a continuation ofthe firm’s long-term commitment to accelerate sustainable, inclusive growth. Each year, McKinsey convenes global leaders alongside the Conference of the Parties (COP), the UN’s summit to accelerate global action to address climate change...
It’s time for a party—the Conference of the Parties, that is. Talks kicked off this week at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Running for a couple of weeks each year, the global summit is the largest annual meeting on climate change. Advertisement The issue on the table this time around: C...
With the UN Climate summit underway in Azerbaijan, African youth are hoping that the meeting can advocate further involvement of young people in climate change response, mitigation and adaptation work
The Sharm el-Sheikh Implementation Plan made a breakthrough on support for climate victims, but avoided confronting the oil and gas sector. EURACTIV's media partner, Climate Home News, reports.
Shelley Inglisis executive director of the University of Dayton Human Rights Center.Over two weeks in November, world leaders and national negotiators will meet in Scotland to discuss what to do aboutclimate change. It's a complex process that can be hard to make sense of from the outside, ...
THE United Nations COP26 climate summit, which runs from 31 October to 12 November in Glasgow, UK, has been described as a "turning point for humanity" and "the most consequential summit... ever".Delayed due to the covid-19 pandemic, the meeting is by far the most important gathering ...
Sky's Tom Clarke reports from Baku, Azerbaijan, where COP29 is to begin amid concerns that Donald Trump will pull the US out of the Paris Climate Accords.
COP stands for Conference of the Parties, and the summit was attended by the countries that signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) –a treaty that came into force in 1994. This was the 26th COP summit and was hosted in partnership between the UK and Italy...