Essential outcomes for COP26
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Smith, Pete
Beaumont, Linda
Bernacchi, Carl J.
Byrne, Maria
Cheung, William
Conant, Richard T.
Cotrufo, Francesca
Feng, Xiaojuan
Janssens, Ivan
Jones, Hefin
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Wiley
Abstract
The UK Government is hosting COP26 in Glasgow between 31st October and 12th November 2021. It plans to make progress in four key areas which summarize as ‘coal, cars, cash and trees’ (Carbon Brief, 2021). The first two of these aims—to get agreement for the rapid phase out of coal, the most polluting of fossil fuels, and to ensure a rapid transition away for cars fuelled by fossil fuels—are very important, but are not directly related to the remit of Global Change Biology. The latter two aims—ensuring that the financial support of $100 billion per year promised in 2010 by wealthy countries to developing countries finally gets delivered and ensuring that climate solutions adopted also co-deliver to nature—are squarely within the remit of Global Change Biology.
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COP26, Outcomes
Sustainable Development Goals
Citation
Smith, P., Beaumont, L., Bernacchi, C.J. et al. 2022, 'Essential outcomes for COP26', Global Change Biology, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 1-3, doi : 10.1111/gcb.15926.