Climate Change Conferences and Seminars Postponed due to COVID-19

The pandemic has disrupted the countries affected. In the absence of a vaccine, governments ordered lockdowns to prevent the further spread of the dreaded COVID-19 and avoid the clogging and overburden of medical services.

International conferences (and sports like the 2020 Olympics) have been postponed.

We have compiled a list of climate change conferences this year that have been cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic.

COP26 UN climate change conference postponed to 2021

The most critical COP26 UN climate change conference has been postponed. It is no longer possible to hold this event because of the coronavirus.

The COP26 is due from October 31 to November 12, 2021.

COP26 is a significant event after the Paris Agreement 2015, where countries came together to negotiate climate and get back on track to deal with the climate crisis.

The confirmed 26,000 attendees must reset their attendance to the new schedule next year.

President-Designate and Secretary for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy Alok Sharma said, “The world is currently facing an unprecedented global challenge, and countries are rightly focusing on saving lives and fighting COVID-19. That is why we have decided to reschedule COP26.”

UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa said, ” COVID-19 is the most urgent threat facing humanity today, but we cannot forget that climate change is the biggest threat facing humanity over the long term.” She added that countries need to significantly boost their climate ambitions in line with the Paris Agreement.

Other postponed climate conferences because of the COVID-19 are as follows:

Please click on the link provided for more information about the rescheduled dates of the conferences and seminars below.

• 2020 Pacific Climate Change Conference, 3^rd Biennial conference on 27 – 29 May 2020. The event’s location is the National University of Samoa, Le Papaigalagala Campus, To’omatagi, Samoa.
• Sustainable Healthcare and Climate Health Conference Aotearoa 2020 will be held from 16-17 June 2020 in Wellington, New Zealand.  The conference will be held in mid-June 2021.
• Climate Change and the Economy, 26 March 2020. Holy Trinity Church, 215 Devonport Road, Tauranga, New Zealand.
• New Zealand Agricultural Climate Change Conference 2020, 1 April 2020, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
• Workshop for Matchmaking and Conference on Climate Change Communication in the Alps, 30 June and 1 July 2020. Bolzano/Bozen, Italy.
• NZ Writers Festival – ‘Climate change grief and the importance of hope’. 19 March 2020. Hillcrest Hamilton, New Zealand.

These international climate change conferences are still on the calendar as of writing

We noted conferences that were still ongoing as of posting this blog. Watch out for developments by clicking the link to the specific event cited.

• 9^th World Conference on Climate Change, October 12-13, 2020. Zurich Switzerland
• Related conferences include climate change and climatology. International climate change conferences are happening online. These will go on as scheduled. Please click the link to see the list and schedules of online climate conferences.