What is COP26? Here's how global climate negotiations work and what's expected from the Glasgow summit

Shelley Inglis is executive director of the University of Dayton Human Rights Center.

Over two weeks in November, world leaders and national negotiators will meet in Scotland to discuss what to do about climate change. It's a complex process that can be hard to make sense of from the outside, but it's how international law and institutions help solve problems that no single country can fix on its own.