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The ESG Explainer: Advance Australia, Finally

Chris Hall

Australia – along with the Pacific Islands and Southeast Asia region ­– is in one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to climate change, says Alvin Chandra, Programme Management Officer – Climate Change with UN Environment Programme. Australia adopted an economy-wide target of net zero emissions by 2050 in the run-up to COP26.

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

Renewable Energy World

Here’s what’s happening behind closed doors and why people are concerned that COP26 might not meet its goals. What is COP26? That agreement set the goal of limiting global warming to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 F), to avoid catastrophic climate change. COP26 stands for the 26th Conference of Parties to the UNFCCC.

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