The UK is slated to hold COP26 in Glasgow from the 31st of October to the 12th of November 2021. The conference has been delayed from 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic but its importance has never been more emphasised. The upcoming COP26 is particularly important as research shows that global warming must be curbed at 1.5 degree Celsius for the goals set out by the Paris Agreement to be viable, hence it will be examined whether countries’ updated self-determined contributions are capable of doing so.