The UN climate conference turns its focus to the impacts of climate change on women and girls as the clock ticks to strike an overarching deal to limit global warming. Follow our live updates.
ADVERTISEMENTThe clock is ticking at the UN climate summit, with only a few days left to strike a deal that will help limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
“We still have a mountain to climb,” said COP26 chairman Alok Sharma, while acknowledging "progress" in the negotiations.
Here is everything you need to know as Day 9 gets underway at COP26:
- Today is Gender Day at COP26 and the summit is turning its focus to gender-sensitive climate policies. 80 per cent of people displaced by climate change are women and children, according to UNFCC.
The UK presidency will publish a first draft of the summit's cover decision overnight, Sharma said. New texts have been tabled on time frames, transparency, finance and adaptation.
Meanwhile, the hard work continues in negotiation rooms**. Teams of two ministers** — one from a rich country, one from a poor — have been assigned to oversee negotiations on each topic that will form part of COP26's cover deal, the UK Presidency said on Monday.
Climate Action Tracker, a think tank, released new forecasts saying current climate policies put us on track to 2.7C degree warming — or 2.4C if all governmentsmet their 2030 targets.
"Assuming all countries implement everything they have proposed here, we would in 2030 still emit twice as much as what we should if we want to be on a 1.5C trajectory," said Professor Niklas Hohne of the New Climate Institute at a press conference.
- South Korea became the latest country to backtrack on its pledge to phase out coal by 2030, just days after signing it.
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If you weren't able to follow along on Monday, here are five takeaways from Day 8, including an impassioned speech by former US President Barack Obama.
