UN Climate Change News, 19 July 2021 – The deadline for Parties, admitted observers and media representatives for early registration ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 (31 October – 12 November 2021) is 23 July. The early registration via the UNFCCC online registration portal is designed to facilitate vaccination for the conference.

COP26 registration through the UNFCCC online registration portal will remain open after the deadline of 23 July for those participants not requesting a vaccine. 

The UK COP Presidency strongly recommends all COP26 participants to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 prior to attending the conference and is offering vaccines for those registered Parties, admitted observers and media representatives who have not yet received a vaccine, are not able to get one in time for attendance at COP26, and cannot access a vaccine through other means.

The vaccine is being offered by the UK government, but will be administered by the United Nations in various cities around the world.

A frequently asked question (FAQ) page provides more details on the vaccination to conference participants.

A user manual for UNFCCC online registration, which contains helpful information and guidelines on how to use the system, is available here.

About the UNFCCC

With 197 Parties, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has near universal membership and is the parent treaty of the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement. The main aim of the Paris Agreement is to keep a global average temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius and to drive efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. The UNFCCC is also the parent treaty of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. The ultimate objective of all agreements under the UNFCCC is to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that will prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system, in a time frame which allows ecosystems to adapt naturally and enables sustainable development.