A Tale of Two Wildly Differing UN Treaties
This week is the start of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s (UNFCCC) COP26 meeting with up to 30,000 delegates descending on Glasgow, Scotland, to decide future global policy. There is also another UN-backed meeting taking place next week as the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) holds its ninth Conference of the Parties (COP9) online beginning November 8. While similar-sounding, the difference between how the two are conducted could not be more distinct.