The long-awaited 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference – COP26 – is upon us: it needs to be a turning point for meaningful international action on climate change.

The COP21 Summit in Paris reached a breakthrough agreement to limit the global warming to 1.5 degrees. Six years on, all eyes are on Glasgow to make sure the world stays on track and keeps 1.5 degrees within reach. As the US climate envoy John Kerry put it, the COP26 climate change summit is the “last best hope for the world to get its act together”.