{"id":44516,"date":"2021-11-12T13:22:34","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T13:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=44516"},"modified":"2021-12-20T11:37:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T11:37:51","slug":"was-it-worth-cop26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/was-it-worth-cop26\/","title":{"rendered":"COP26: Draft deal reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On Friday&nbsp; the climate crisis conference comes to an end and the big question is whether COP26 achieved something?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A new draft agreement calls for urgent action from governments asking them to reveal their plans known as nationally determined contributions (NDCs) on the reduction of greenhouse gas and to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-59221790\">strengthen support for poorer countries to fight climate change known as climate finance.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite hope and all the promises made, UN Chief Antonio Guterres said: <em>\u201cCOP26 would not probably achieve its aims\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;the BBC reported.<\/p>\n<p>Extinction Rebellion UK made a powerful statement and said:<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/extinctionrebellion.uk\/2021\/09\/27\/extinction-rebellion-uk-position-on-cop26\/\">&#8220;We can not rely on COP&#8221;.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>We see that although COP26 was an opportunity to come up with a solution, it seems to have created more doubts about its efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about <a href=\"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/category\/climate-change\/\">climate change on our site.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Come back to Voice of London for more on the deal later.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Words by: Ioana Nedelcu&nbsp;<\/strong> &nbsp; <strong>Sub-editor: Katie Bird<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday&nbsp; the climate crisis conference comes to an end and the big question is whether COP26 achieved something? A new draft agreement calls for urgent action from governments asking them to reveal their plans&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":44538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,27,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activism","category-climate-change","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47729,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44516\/revisions\/47729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}