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COP26: UK proposes new date for delayed climate change summit
May 27, 2020
The UK Government has proposed delaying the UN climate change conference COP26 by a year.
It is understood ministers have put forward new dates for the talks to begin on 1 - 12 November 2021.
The event, at Glasgow's SEC, has been postponed from this November because of the coronavirus pandemic.
A meeting of the UN's climate body, the UNFCCC, is being held later this week where the proposal for the rescheduled conference will be discussed.
In a letter to UN member states, seen by the PA news agency, the UK cabinet office has proposed the new date. Although the letter does not specifically mention Glasgow as the venue, a commitment was made to the city to retain the location.
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Dozens of world leaders were due to attend the gathering - the most important round of talks since the global Paris Agreement to tackle climate change was secured in 2015.
Analysis
By Kevin Keane, BBC Scotland environment correspondent
This has come as no surprise to those who understand how UN climate conferences work.
Since the Paris agreement, the annual gathering has been seeking to further the international commitment to limit global temperature rises.
But that work doesn't just happen in the scheduled two weeks where delegates gather at cities around the world, in this case Glasgow.
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