Statements from UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson this week have made it evidently clear that he is “very worried” that his country’s hosting of COP26 in Glasgow over the coming weeks will not be deemed a success. With many warning signs stacked against it, the conference will likely be defined by its ability to ‘consign coal to history,’ while global carbon taxation and methane accounting continue to remain out of the spotlight. Broadly, success for the COP26 conference negotiations – which will run between October 31 and November 12 – can be defined by the commitment to limiting the average global temperature to 1.5 degree Celsius above ore-industrial levels, largely through an effort to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions…