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COP26: Six key climate pledges from week one in Glasgow Some 25,000 delegates from around the world descended on Glasgow this week as the 26th UN climate change conference of the parties, or COP26, finally got underway. The central goal of the UK presidency has been to reach a consensus on actions to secure net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and keep global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. It comes six years after the landmark Paris Agreement saw almost all countries in the world commit to holding global temperature rises to “well below” 2C and “pursuing efforts” for 1.5C....