This study investigates the conceptual metaphors employed by both African and European political leaders to conceptualize the process of facing climate change and reaching the goal of biodiversity in their speeches during the 26^th UN Climate Change Conference, also known as Conference of the Parties (COP 26) that took place at Glasgow in November 2021. For this end, 20 speeches were selected; 10 representing each of the two continents to identify and analyze the conceptual metaphors employed by political leaders in tackling climate change. The ten European countries are the United Kingdom, Italy, Austria, Armenia, the Netherlands, Finland, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro. The African countries are represented by Angola, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Mauritius, Namibia, Nigeria, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The study adopts Lakoff and Johnson's (1980) Conceptual Metaphor Theory. The results reveal European political leaders' tendency to utilize conflict/ war, doomsday and stock market metaphors. African leaders, on the other hand, had an inclination to employ journey metaphors, building metaphors and human metaphors.