Cop26: Antarctic glacier named Glasgow as ‘stark reminder’ of climate crisis
by Associated Press from Environment | The Guardian on (#5RBQ5)
Glasgow glacier symbolises implications for world as global leaders prepare to meet at vital summit
Britain is naming a thinning Antarctic ice mass the Glasgow glacier, to symbolise the vast implications for the world of the Cop26 climate conference that starts on Sunday in the Scottish city.
More than 120 world leaders will join British prime minister Boris Johnson in Glasgow for the Cop26 summit, one of the world's last chances to keep alive the goal, agreed in Paris in 2015, of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels.
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