The United Kingdom, in partnership with Italy, will host the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow on 31 October – 12 November 2021.
COP26 will focus on accelerating progress towards achieving the aims of the Paris Agreement. To avoid the worst effects of climate change, countries must ramp up ambition, accelerate adaptation, increase international climate financing, and collaborate across governments, businesses, and civil society to finalise the Paris rulebook.
Speakers from various facets of the climate agenda will lay out what to expect from the conference. They will share their insights on the political dynamics, negotiations, and how to take forward the progress to be made in Glasgow to the implementing arm of international climate action in Geneva. The event will also present one of the Earthshot Prize Finalists, which will be announced on 17 October 2021.
This event, organized in partnership with the Geneva Environment Network, will look at the opportunities and challenges of addressing climate change ahead of COP26.
The event will take place at Palais des Nations and online. Kindly register directly on the Webex platform for online participation.
Due to high number of on site registrations we clodes the registration option for onsite particpation.
Kindly register on the Webex platform
More information available at tiny.cc/COP26gen
Current restrictions
Due to Covid-19, meeting participants who:
- within the 14 days prior, have been in close contact with a person testing positive for Covid-19, may only join meetings remotely and not in person, and/or
- have any cold- or flu-type symptoms (however mild)
are not authorized access to UNOG.
If you are diagnosed with Covid-19 within 14 days of your presence at this meeting at UNOG – even if no longer in Switzerland – you have a responsibility to inform the organizing secretariat or the UNOG Medical Service.
The UNOG Medical Service can be contacted by phone +41 (022) 917 25 20.
For the most up-to-date information about measures at the Palais des Nations please visit the UN Geneva website.
UNOG requires all persons wanting to come to the premises to follow Swiss regulations regarding travel quarantine and to wear masks in all common indoor areas.
