Is It Time to Postpone the 2020 Climate Summit?

In the Inter Press Service, Felix Dodds and Michael Strauss argued for postponing COP26 (formally, the 26th annual Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change), currently planned for Glasgow, Scotland, in November, but keeping up pressure on governments. They argue that the large-scale government response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic can reshape the terms of debate about what is feasible, and the possibililty of a change in Washington in November would mean that a 2021 conference would be more fruitful.