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  The Glasgow Pact was an agreement signed by 197 countries in November of 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland under the leadership of the United Kingdom/Italy. This event took place under the auspices of COP26, the international meeting of parties to the UNFCCC, which takes place each year. This conference was well awaited and with good reason: it was postponed from 2020 to 2021 and was a crucial one because all nations were to submit fresh climate plans showing increased ambition to cut emissions. These plans, called nationally determined contributions, were initially submitted in 2015 when the Paris Agreement was signed, and are meant to be upgraded every five years. This particular meet was important because the decade ending 2030 is of grave significance to climate change. We have a slight window within which to act, if at all we are to save this planet from extreme climatic changes, and keep alive and thriving the intentions of the Paris agreement 2015. The global carbon budget is ...

The 26 th Conference of Parties to the UNFCCC will take place from the 31 st of October to 12 th of November in the city of Glasgow in Scotland under the presidency of the UK and Italy. The venue will be the Scottish Events Campus. The conference of parties is an annual gathering of parties to the UN Climate Change and is held to discuss and map the way forward in regards to climate change. This year’s COP is particularly more significant for various reasons.  COP26 - image courtesy One is that it was supposed to take place in 2020 but was pushed to 2021 because of the pandemic. Two is because it is the second time that NDCs are deposited and so they will be evaluated to see if the principle of ratcheting up ambition, a major part of climate action is being followed. Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) are the centerpiece of the Paris Agreement whose aim is to drastically lower greenhouse gas emissions so as to stop climate change, which is of grave importance in toda...