Queen Elizabeth II will attend COP26 climate talks in Glasgow

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The UK hosts world leaders during the nearly two weeks of talks in the Scottish city from 31 October to 12 November.

The talks, known as COP26, will come after the G20 meeting in Rome and are expected to attract many of the group’s leaders to open negotiations.

The Queen attended G7 talks in Cornwall earlier this year, where the weather was discussed.

The British government, which is organizing the talks, has insisted that COP26 will move forward despite the challenges of international travel posed by the pandemic. COP26 would be one of the largest international face-to-face events since the pandemic began.

The event is taking place in the context of a series of extreme weather events in the northern hemisphere, including heat waves and wildfires in parts of North America, southern Europe and northern Europe. ‘Africa, in addition to floods in China and Western Europe.

It is also followed by the publication of a report on the state of science of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which found that global warming has occurred more rapidly than previously understood and that the influence human on the climate is “unequivocal.”

COP26 President Alok Sharma has set a loose agenda for talks, focused on getting leaders to commit to limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels to prevent worsening impacts of the climate crisis.

It will also focus on setting an end date for coal use and increasing payments from rich nations in the global south to help countries adapt to the climate crisis and prepare for a zero net future, in which the world emits no more greenhouse gases than it eliminates.

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