FROM COP26
DIXIT 12th November 2021
In October, I was selected to attend COP26 with a group of 20 other students from all across the UK. For nearly three decades the UN has been bringing together almost every country on earth for global climate summits, called COP, which stands for ‘Conference of the Parties’. In that time climate change has gone from being a fringe issue to a global priority. From the 1st-12th of November we will be having the 26th annual summit, giving it the name COP26. With the UK as President, COP is taking place in Glasgow. I was lucky enough to travel to Glasgow and experience it first-hand.
I got to attend talks and panels and interviewed renowned individuals such as Zac Goldsmith, a British politician, life peer and journalist serving as Minister of State for Pacific and the Environment and member of the Conservative Party. He was its candidate at the 2016 London mayoral election and was Member of Parliament (MP) for Richmond Park from 2010 to 2016 and 2017 to 2019. I was also lucky enough to meet Kevin Courtney, General Secretary of the National Education Union, the largest teachers trade union, for England and Wales. We discussed the effects of climate change and the benefits of further educating students on this topic by adding it into the school curriculum. 4
