New Delhi, Jul 8 (IANS): The UK's Presidency programme for UN climate summit named COP26 has been unveiled to drive forward climate ambition and action against key issues alongside two weeks of intensive climate negotiations in Glasgow.
Beginning with the World Leaders Summit on November 1 and 2, each day will focus on a different theme, from advancing progress on key priorities like clean energy, zero-emission transport and protecting nature, to ensuring the participation of women, girls and young people is at the centre of climate action.
Cross-cutting themes like science, innovation and inclusivity will run throughout the programme, as will the need to mitigate climate change, adapt to its impacts, and mobilise public and private finance.
Exhibitions and events in the UK-run zones in Glasgow will also feature throughout the programme to showcase progress from the whole of society, governments, businesses, amongst others.
The Presidency programme will run alongside the formal negotiations which sit at the heart of the UN summit and will focus on closing off the outstanding aspects of the Paris Agreement.
COP26 President Alok Sharma said: "The COP26 summit in Glasgow is our best hope of safeguarding the planet for everyone, building a brighter future and keeping the 1.5C target alive.
"I have been pleased to see progress and momentum on the four key goals I have been taking to governments across the world and the presidency programme will continue this throughout the two weeks of the summit.
"From finance to energy and gender to adaptation these are vital issues that need to be addressed to make COP26 inclusive and successful."
A detailed programme and negotiations schedule will be published in due course.
All countries, including India, who are part of the UNFCCC are entitled to attend a COP and will decide what level of representation. Attendance at the leader-level segment will be confirmed in due course.
The UK government in April announced to set the world's most ambitious climate change target into law to reduce emissions by 78 per cent by 2035 compared to 1990 levels.
For the first time, UK's sixth Carbon Budget will incorporate the UK's share of international aviation and shipping emissions, bringing more than three-quarters of the way to net zero by 2050.
In line with the recommendation from the independent Climate Change Committee, this sixth Carbon Budget limits the volume of greenhouse gases emitted over a five-year period from 2033 to 2037.
According to the UK government, the Carbon Budget will ensure Britain remains on track to end its contribution to climate change while remaining consistent with the Paris Agreement temperature goal to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius and pursue efforts towards 1.5 degrees.
In a stark warning that countries must immediately ramp up their climate ambition if they are serious about the Paris Agreement they committed to more than five years ago, a United Nations Climate Change report has warned that with all current climate pledges, global emissions in 2030 will only be one per cent lower than emissions in 2010.
The initial synthesis, published in February, analysed the impact of the level of ambition from all climate plans submitted by December 2020.
The synthesis of climate action ambition as contained in countries' new or updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), indicating that nations must redouble their climate efforts if they are to reach the Paris Agreement's goal of limiting global temperature rise by two degrees Celsius -- ideally 1.5 degrees -- by the end of the century.
The NDC Synthesis Report covers submissions up to December 31, 2020, and includes new or updated NDCs by 75 Parties, which represent approximately 30 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions.
The COP26, originally set to take place in Glasgow in November 2020, was deferred owing to coronavirus pandemic.