LWVUS BLOG POST
11/23/2021
Written by League member Emily Polakowski as a guest

During the first two weeks in November, the United Kingdom hosted the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland. I was the lucky recipient of a scholarship to attend this event as a delegate observer for the League of Women Voters of the United States.

I’ll be the first to admit that my knowledge of loss and damage vs. adaptation vs. mitigation, feminist climate justice, and the carbon market were limited. I knew that climate change was real and needed to be slowed, but I didn’t know all the intricacies or the depth of experiences that were currently happening around the world. But by the end of my week in Glasgow, I had learned so much and become energized around this topic! Now, I have to-do lists for local and individual actions, local and national groups to join, and lists of library books to read in an effort to do my part to “keep 1.5 alive”