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

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That treaty has since been updated, including in 2015 when nations signed the Paris climate agreement. Another aim of COP26 is to increase climate finance to help poorer countries transition to clean energy and adapt to climate change. That agreement set the goal of limiting global warming to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius (3.6°F),