COP26 (2024)

FAQs

What were the main results of COP26? ›

The two headline outcomes from COP26 were the signing of the Glasgow Climate Pact and agreeing the Paris Rulebook. Other significant deals and announcements, not part of COP26 itself, were also made during the conference.

The UK responded to the Glasgow Climate Pact by revisiting our 2030 NDC and strengthening it with information on delivery of our target to reduce all greenhouse gas emissions by at least 68% by 2030 on 1990 levels.

At COP26, the United States and the European Union launched the Global Methane Pledge to reduce 2020 levels of anthropogenic methane emissions at least 30% by 2030. The United States is also leading the effort to reduce emissions of methane — a greenhouse gas over 80 times more potent than CO2.

COP stands for Conference of the Parties, and the summit was attended by the countries that signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – a treaty that came into force in 1994. This was the 26th COP summit and was hosted in partnership between the UK and Italy.

As we have set out, at its core COP26 simultaneously ignored difficult issues such as agriculture and coal, while shutting developing countries, that are destined to feel the effects of climate change first, out of the decision-making process.

The invasion meant that oil and gas-producing nations became more influential at COP27, undermining the negotiations. World leaders preoccupied with spiralling energy prices and the escalating cost of living were reluctant to act boldly on fossil fuels.

The Pact is therefore formally not legally binding, and comprises a set of international negotiated and agreed policy commit- ments by the parties to the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement to promote the achievement of their objectives.

Secured more than $50 billion to cut industrial emissions and expand clean manufacturing, including billions for clean hydrogen hubs and clean hydrogen innovation in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law; new tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act to spur a groundswell of solar, wind, battery, and critical material ...

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced multiple initiatives to combat the climate crisis at COP26.

Where is COP 2025? ›

The decision to host the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP 30) in Brazil between November 10 and 21, 2025 was approved on Monday, December 11. The decision was taken by consensus at the plenary session of COP 28, which is being held in Dubai.

COP is their flagship event, each gathering presided over and hosted by a country. Hosting rights rotate between five United Nations regions: the African Group, the Asia-Pacific Group, the Eastern Europe Group, the Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC) and the Western European and Others Group (WEOG).