Wednesday 27 May 2020

Cop-Out?

The Cop26 meeting (on the pressing problem of climate change) was scheduled to take place in Glasgow (Scotland) in November 2020. It is of little surprise that the Covid-19 pandemic has derailed these plans (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/26/cop26-climate-talks-in-glasgow-likely-to-be-delayed-again). Initially, it was thought that a delay of 3 months was likely but there are now suggestions that we might have to wait for November 2021 for experts (and politicians)  to attempt to deal with this most pressing of issues. One can understand the desire to have a meaningful meeting that actually achieves actions but I would not like the sense of urgency to be lost. I suspect that concerns about economies of countries in a (hopefully) Post-Pandemic world might create difficulties.

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