COP27: What is a COP?

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Delegates are gathering in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, for the COP27 UN climate change conference beginning on Sunday 6 November. A UN report has concluded there’s no longer any "credible pathway" to keeping the rise in global temperatures below the key threshold of 1.5C and that the world will warm by around 2.8C this century if current policies remain in place. But what is a COP? Nick Robins, a Professor in Practice for Sustainable Finance at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics (LSE) gives Ritula Shah a simple guided to some key climate conference terminology. (Photo: COP27 sign Credit: Reuters)