FAQs about COP26 Glasgow 2021
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1. When and where will COP26 take place and what is its motto?
COP26 will be held between November 1 and 12, 2021, in Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland, whose capital is Edinburgh, under the slogan “Uniting the world to tackle climate change.”
Scotland is one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom, three of them located on the island of Great Britain: England, Wales and Scotland. The fourth country, Northern Ireland, is located on the island of Ireland.
Until the early 1920s “Ireland belonged to the United Kingdom. But not all Irish were happy with the union, and many waged a long and bloody struggle for independence from London. A century later, the island is divided into two nations: Northern Ireland, part of the United Kingdom, and the Republic of Ireland, in the south…” BBC News.