PM to attend climate change conference in Paris

“This is the first time since climate negotiations started two decades ago that virtually all the world’s nations have committed to being part of the solution”, he said.

The usually loquacious and jovial Xie remains optimistic about the outcome in Paris, predicting a global agreement that would be “satisfactory to no-one but acceptable to everyone”.

In preparing for Paris, more than 170 countries have submitted national climate targets covering more than 90 per cent of global emissions.

The negotiations themselves “will be resumed on Sunday 29 November at 5pm” (1600 GMT) at Le Bourget airport outside the capital, the secretariat said. What kind of binding agreement can be … binding?

Forests owned and controlled by indigenous peoples and local communities contain about 37.7 billion tons of carbon, 29 times more than the annual emissions of the world’ passenger vehicles, according to estimates by the World Resources Institute and Rights and Resources Initiative.

China’s special envoy on climate change, Xie Zhenhua, has defended the country’s decision to build more coal-fired power plants ahead of a global climate summit in Paris next week.

Andrei’s background is in geophysics, and he published his first scientific paper when he was still an undergrad; now, his main focus is on how geology and geophysics can be applied to understand and protect the environment. “I will attend COP21 and would very much like for an agreement to be reached on a new global framework to reduce greenhouse gas emissions”.

Informally, it’s COP21, or simply the Paris climate conference. Developing countries such as India face the hard path of bringing millions of people out of poverty without significantly increasing their carbon emissions.

“Canada believes this agreement should also support the most vulnerable countries in their efforts to respond and adapt to climate change”.

Rising temperatures will lead to sea level rises, more intense storms and flooding, more extreme droughts, water shortages and heatwaves – as well as massive loss of wildlife and reduction in crop yields, potentially sparking conflict and mass migration.

Most India-based solar power developers get financing at 11 per cent while those with access to foreign funds get it at much cheaper rate of 7-8 per cent; sometimes even lower.

As well as government negotiators and ministers involved in agreeing a new treaty, thousands of journalists, campaigners, businesses, investors and regional leaders will also be in Paris during the talks.

British Prime Minister David Cameron pledged over 20 million pounds in global aid on Friday to help small island states deal with the effects of climate change.

Meanwhile, data released earlier in the day showed that Japan – which plans to reduce emissions by 26 percent below 2013 levels by 2030 – is making some gains on the home-front.