Five things you need to know about the Glasgow Climate Pact

By Simon Lewis, Professor of Global Change Science at University of Leeds and, UCL
Mark Maslin, Professor of Earth System Science, UCL

The COP26 UN climate talks in Glasgow have finished and the gavel has come down on the Glasgow Climate Pact agreed by all 197 countries.

If the 2015 Paris Agreement provided the framework for countries to tackle climate change then Glasgow, six years on, was the first major test of this high-water mark of global diplomacy.

So what have we learnt from two weeks of leaders’ statements, massive protests and side deals on coal, stopping fossil fuel finance…

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