Amir takes part in COP26 climate talks in Glasgow

QNA Glasgow His Highness the Amir of the State of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani participated in the opening session of the 26th United Nations Clim...

QNAGlasgowHis Highness the Amir of the State of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani participated in the opening session of the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 26) on the Scottish Event Campus in Glasgow, Scotland, on Monday.The opening session was attended by several heads of states and governments, as well as delegations, and representatives of the participating regional and international organizations.An official delegation accompanying HH the Amir with ranking officials, and guests of the summit also attended the session. “At COP26, I worked with world leaders to achieve and further UN goals of reducing carbon emissions as well as addressing the many risks of climate change. Qatar aims through various initiatives to be a regional model in fulfilling both developmental and environmental targets,” HH the Amir said on Twitter on Monday.The 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) began in Glasgow, Scotland, on Sunday and will go on until November 12, discussing the repercussions and dangers of climate change on the planet.About 25,000 people are expected to participate in the conference, including 127 state leaders, heads of government, directors and officials of many organizations concerned with climate affairs around the world.COP26 is described as the “the last-chance saloon”, as evidence of climate crisis is clear, and the forest fires and floods that the world has witnessed in recent months are only a small part of them.The Conference, which was postponed for a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, aims to prevent global temperatures from rising more than 1.5 degrees Celsius this century, a limit that scientists say will spare the Earth the most devastating consequences of global warming.It will be the first conference that will review the extent of the world’s progress in achieving the required goals since the signing of the 2015 Paris Agreement, an international treaty signed by nearly 200 countries with the aim of sparing humanity a climate catastrophe, and preventing many changes that occurred on the planet from becoming permanent and irreversible.