Climate Action: covering COP26
Highlights
- Secretary-General António Guterres opens World Leaders Summit
- TED Countdown: Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed
- Key Online Resources
- Daily COP26 Newsletter
- COP26 Explainers
Enough of ‘treating nature like a toilet’ – Guterres brings stark call for climate action to Glasgow
As the World Leaders Summit at COP26 opened on Monday, 1 November, UN chief António Guterres sent a stark message to the international community. “We are digging our own graves”, he said, referring to the addiction to fossil fuels which threatens to push humanity and the planet, to the brink, through unsustainable global heating.
Climate action can be a vehicle to deliver dignity, opportunity and equality for all. In this TED Countdown event, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed invites us to reimagine what the journey to net-zero could look like if we invest in people’s climate efforts while prioritizing the 17 Sustainable Development Goals — a blueprint of interlinked global goals to protect humanity and our warming planet.
ONLINE RESOURCES
The COP26 webpage on the United Nations climate action portal offers daily blogs along with other daily content and resources. The climate portal contains a wealth of information, including press materials, fact sheets, latest reports, videos and much more. Content produced by UN News is available on the COP26 news portal. Daily content includes the podcast, The Lid is On, as well as the climate newsletter. Past newsletters can be found here. UN Climate Change’s COP26 webpage offers a programme overview, live blogs, live webcast and more. The detailed UK COP26 Presidency programme is available here. The UN Department of Global Communications has created a dedicated Trello Board available to showcase daily multimedia content produced for COP26. Starting 4 November, the United Nations will produce a series of conversations in the SDG Studio at its headquarters in New York to amplify the thematic discussions and events taking place in Glasgow. More information will be available on the Trello Board soon.
COP26 EXPLAINERS
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