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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWho will be at COP \u2013 and what do they do?<\/h2>\n
The official UNFCCC COP is split into a Blue Zone, for official badge-holders only, and a Green Zone, which is open to the public to visit.\u00a0In theory these two spaces are linked but in practice there is very little flow of people from the Blue Zone into the Green Zone. We expect the Green Zone to be within the Glasgow Science Centre Building where the public and school groups will be able to interact with various organisations, from businesses and universities, to NGOs and international organisations. Within the Blue Zone at the Glasgow SEC there are UN officials, representatives from governments, negotiators, advisors, a lot of press and media, and organisations with ‘Observer’ status. In the second week heads of state will arrive and at COP26 we expect 196 to be present.\u00a0The observer organisations are grouped into \u2018constituencies\u2019 including indigenous groups, women and gender, local government, business and industry, young people, trade unions, environmental NGOs and research NGOs. In addition to the official COP spaces there will be a Civil Society Hub that will act as a base for activists from around the world to meet and socialise. This will be open to everyone – those badged delegates of\u00a0COP from global civil society and activists, both local and those who have travelled to Glasgow to add their voices to calls for global action.<\/p>\n
How are civil society involved before and during COP?<\/h2>\n
COP needs the participation of global civil society \u2013 from putting pressure on decision makers at COP through stunts and advocacy, to building momentum in-between COPs, and providing a welcoming space to host people from around the world as they travel to the city where COP is taking place. In the UK civil society has been working hard since Glasgow was announced as the venue of COP26 to ensure people of all backgrounds can be part of the COP experience. This has included working with civil society groups in Chile and Spain to ensure the passing on of vital COP knowledge and mobilising, and the creation of a UK COP26 Civil Society Coalition to coordinate the work in the lead up to COP. This work covers areas including logistics, mobilisations (particularly the huge march expected to happen the middle weekend of COP), political strategy, Glasgow local engagement, and global solidarity. Civil society is also working with the UK and Scottish governments to create an inclusive COP and has regular information sharing meetings. Civil society and governments also work together to facilitate access to the ‘green space’ at COP26, which is the official UN area that civil society has traditionally occupied. In addition, civil society is working to create the Peoples\u2019 Summit, an annual meeting that runs parallel to COP and brings together organisations and networks from various parts of the world to creatively share experiences, promote alternative solutions and strengthen global organisation and local action to curb the climate crisis. COP has huge potential for Scottish and UK civil society to both welcome and learn from global civil society as campaigners travel from around the world to share stories of climate impacts and to call for climate justice \u2013 there are many ways to make the most of these opportunities.<\/p>\n
Originally published at the website of the\u00a0COP26 Coalition<\/a>\u00a0(full version)<\/b><\/p>\n For further reading:<\/b><\/p>\n Leaders et sp\u00e9cialistes de la plan\u00e8te convergent en novembre \u00e0 Glasgow pour les pourparlers mondiaux sur le climat de la COP26, dont les r\u00e9sultats d\u00e9termineront les modes d’action (ou non) des gouvernements face \u00e0 la crise climatique. En voici un aper\u00e7u \u00e0 travers ses protagonistes et ses th\u00e8mes. Un document explicatif r\u00e9dig\u00e9 par la Coalition COP26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-classifiee"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwdev-transform-network-net.sociality.gr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwdev-transform-network-net.sociality.gr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwdev-transform-network-net.sociality.gr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwdev-transform-network-net.sociality.gr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwdev-transform-network-net.sociality.gr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21162"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wwwdev-transform-network-net.sociality.gr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28901,"href":"https:\/\/wwwdev-transform-network-net.sociality.gr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21162\/revisions\/28901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwdev-transform-network-net.sociality.gr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwdev-transform-network-net.sociality.gr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwdev-transform-network-net.sociality.gr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwdev-transform-network-net.sociality.gr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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