5 Nov 2021 - For nearly three decades the UN has been bringing together almost every country on earth for global climate summits - called COPs - which stands for ‘Conference of the Parties’. 'In that time climate change has gone from being a fringe issue to a global priority. This year was the 26th annual summit – giving it the name.
As countries begin to recover from the Coronavirus pandemic, industries must take the historic opportunity to tackle climate change at the same time – to build back better, and greener. Governments and businesses can deliver green recoveries across the globe that bring in good jobs, trillions in investment and ground-breaking new technology. And we must. To keep the temperature of the planet under control – limiting its increase to 1.5 degrees - the science dictates that by the second half of the century, every country should be producing less carbon than they take out of the atmosphere. This is what reaching ‘net zero’ means.
Highlighting the Importance of Standards
The world’s leading developers of International Standards – the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) – have signalled their strong interest in working with the United Nations to combat climate .... Read more
