Glossary

The 26th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was held in Glasgow, UK in November 2021. Currently, 197 countries and regions are members.

The conference adopted the Glasgow Climate Accord. This strengthened the goal of "keeping the global temperature rise well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre Industry levels and striving to limit it to 1.5 degrees Celsius," which was set out in the Paris Agreement adopted at COP21 in 2015. It also emphasized the need to phase out coal-fired power generation and review subsidies for fossil fuels. It also confirmed that financial support for climate change measures for developing countries would be expanded, and developed countries reaffirmed their goal of providing $100 billion per year.

Announced in 2021, Catena-X is an open ecosystem for data collaboration in the automotive industry. Its main objectives are to improve productivity across the industry by sharing data throughout the supply chain and to strengthen efforts toward sustainable production and decarbonization throughout the vehicle lifecycle. Catena-X is led by major European automakers such as Volkswagen and BMW. It provides standards for data interoperability between companies and enables peer-to-peer data exchange, enabling the secure use of compatible data. It also enables fair data exchange by making applications that comply with technical standards available from a marketplace.