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A quick explainer for COP26 — here’s how climate negotiations work and what’s at stake

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The above photo was taken at COP25 in Madrid, Spain, in 2019.) . One key goal of COP26 is to ratchet up these targets to reach net zero carbon emissions by the middle of the century. Wealthy countries promised in 2009 to contribute $100 billion a year by 2020 to help developing nations, a goal that has not been reached.