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

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Here’s what’s happening behind closed doors and why people are concerned that COP26 might not meet its goals. That agreement set the goal of limiting global warming to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius (3.6°F), One key goal of COP26 is to ratchet up these targets to reach net zero carbon emissions by the middle of the century.