How important is COP26? There is an understandable desire to resist the modern impulse to rank and categorise any and all events, to hyperbolically attach ‘historic’ to pretty mundane occasions, to promote the moderately impressive to full blown GOAT-status. We are living in an age of inflationary event significance.
And yet, you can still make a case for COP26 being one of the most important Summits in human history. The stakes are that high, the potential outcomes that era-defining. From businesses to journalists to the politicians taking part to the wider public, the gathering deserves due care and attention.
The first thing to consider is that the Glasgow Summit will be one of the …
