<span style="color: #444444;">Following the G 20 Summit, Mr. Modi will leave for Glasgow in Scotland, where COP26 Climate Change Summit gets underway today.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #444444;">Mr. Modi will attend the World Leaders' Summit of the 26th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The high-level segment of COP-26 will be held tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. The Heads of State of more than 120 countries are expected to attend the event.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #444444;">The conference of the parties (COP), is an annual summit under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The UNFCCC is a global agreement signed in 1992, between 197 countries to prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system. A key task for the COP is to review the national communications and emission inventories submitted by Parties. The first COP meeting was held in Berlin, Germany in March, 1995.</span><br />'' <br />''<span style="color: #444444;">The 26th edition, COP-26, which began today was originally slated to be held in 2020, but was deferred to 2021 in view of the Covid-19 pandemic.&nbsp;</span><br />
News On AIR | October 31, 2021 10:21 PM
COP26 Climate Change Summit gets underway at Glasgow in Scotland