How can countries work together to make a success of COP26?

Institute for Government

Speakers: Peter Betts, Visiting Professor in Practice at the LSE Grantham Research Institute, Associate Fellow at Chatham House and former EU Lead Climate Negotiator Karsten Sach, Lead Climate Negotiator for Germany and Director General ‘International and European Policy, Climate Policy’ in the German Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety Joseph Teo, Chief Negotiator for Climate Change for Singapore and former Deputy Permanent Representative for Singapore to the United Nations Jacob Werksman, Principal Adviser to the Directorate General for Climate Action for the European Commission Chaired by Jill Rutter, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Government. This event was part of the Institute for Government's international one-day virtual conference looking at the route to net zero ahead of COP26, the United Nations climate change summit that the UK will host in Glasgow in November. With many countries having adopted targets, the conference explored the challenges they will face in delivering them identified in the Institute's recent report on net zero, which you can find on our website: https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publications/net-zero Find out more about our IfG Delivering Net Zero conference: https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/events/delivering-net-zero