BGIPU Chair reports to the 143rd IPU Assembly on the COP26 Parliamentary meeting in Glasgow.
Channel: BGIPU
Date: 2021-12-06

With some 200 parliamentarians, officials and experts participating, the world's parliaments committed to taking urgent action on climate change in Glasgow, United Kingdom at the UN Climate Change Conference, COP26. The parliamentarians were gathered in Glasgow on 7 November at a parliamentary meeting co-organized by the IPU and BGIPU.  As reported to the 143rd IPU Assembly in Madrid on 30 November by BGIPU Chair, Harriett Baldwin MP, in their final adopted outcome document MPs laid out an ambitious roadmap for increased parliamentary engagement to address climate change. They underlined the importance of parliaments, with their core legislative, oversight, budgetary and representation functions, in ensuring the implementation of the climate change objectives contained in the Paris Agreement, the world’s major legally-binding international treaty on climate change.

The Outcome document is linked here: https://d23pzakm7ws4rd.cloudfront.net/prod/uploads/2021/11/COP26-Outcome-Document-e.pdf