By Raphael Banda Zambia is part of the over 200 World leaders who have converged in Glasgow for the United Nations Climate Change Conference - COP26 to agree on how to step up universal action to solve the climate catastrophe . Nearly 30 years ago, global leaders came together to collectively address climate change and for the first time signed a climate convention that commit each to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. From that time, parties have been meeting annually to discuss the progress and challenges apart from the year 2020 where the meeting was postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic. The ongoing Conferences of Parties (COP26) that commenced on October 31 st to November 12 th will among other things review progress on their commitments under the Paris Agreement ’s goal of keeping global warming to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5°C. United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson opened the Summit and described it as w