COP26: smokes and mirrors

Summits of ambitions and commitments

Around 20,000 government representatives, scientists, policy experts, celebrities, influencers, and activists are convening this week in Glasgow, Scotland, for COP26, the UN Climate Summit commencing Monday.

Yet I cannot help but feel a sense of frustration in regards to the vast discrepancy between the amount of hype that the event has been receiving and will continue to—relative to the actual impact such conferences, led by the world’s political elites, have actually had in the past decades.