What are climate conferences for?

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Even if global warming is contained at + 1.5 ° C, the Hindu Kush will lose a third of its glaciers, says the study.

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By: Adrien Delgrange

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The Cop 26 opens in Scotland in Glasgow, this Sunday, October 31, 2021. It is therefore in a few days that the leaders of the whole world will meet again to talk about climate, and perhaps take new decisions to fight against greenhouse gas emissions. 

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By dint of hearing that "The catastrophe is approaching" and after the good intentions of the Paris agreements of 6 years ago: namely to limit global warming to 1.5 ° C. 

Have the 25 previous COPs succeeded in stopping climate change? 

Are the days of procrastination over?  

Is there still hope?  

And as if to set the tone for the arduous task which awaits the British president of Cop 26, Alok Sharma declares:

What are climate conferences for?  

This is our debate for the day.  

To discuss it

- Clément Sénéchal

, climate spokesperson for Greenpeace France

- Lola Vallejo

, director of the climate program at IDDRI, Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations

- Hervé Le Treut

, climatologist and member of the Académie des Sciences, coordinated the two works of the AcclimaTerra Regional scientific committee “Anticipating climate change in New Aquitaine”.

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