Time for the Climate

One of the main sticking points is between the developed countries, which have historically produced most of the Carbon dioxide behind global warming, and developing nations.

The 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference will be held in Paris from November 30 to December 11. “The Paris Agreement must ensure that climate actions guided by these principles and protect the livelihoods, food and nutrition security, and the rights of food producers in developing countries”.

The worldwide community is seeking to create a post-2020 climate change regime to replace the Kyoto Protocol – the existing worldwide framework for fighting global warming – at the climate change conference in Paris kicking off next week.

Almost 50,000 participants are expected in Paris, including 25,000 official delegates from government, United Nations agencies, intergovernmental organizations, non-government organizations and civil society. Already, glacial melt, extreme weather events and rising sea levels are having a noticeable impact around the world.

The WMO said the global average surface temperature this year would also likely pass “the symbolic and significant milestone” of 1C.

India’s efforts to combat the global challenge of climate change ahead of #COP 21-the UN Climate Change Summit will be highlighted in a live “Talkathon” today organised by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.

The ACP said that for developing countries, particularly its member states, worldwide public finance will remain “the major source of funding for climate change actions and can play a key role in leveraging and mobilising other sources of finance which can be complementary to public finance”.

Informally, it’s COP21, or simply the Paris climate conference. First, if deforestation were to stop, so would the emissions produced by harvesting trees and slash-and-burn agriculture. The negotiations on this remain heavily divided along North-South lines.

Why is this summit different?

Reaching a deal that every country will put its name to will take optimism, but it’s also going to take hard work. “China is still testing the waters”, said Professor Zhu Dajian of Tongji University.

“And it is the first time that China has accepted to reduce emissions”.

What is Canada putting on the table? The Director of the Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies at VUW, Chapman draws on his expertise to assess why the government’s INDC isn’t good enough, why emissions trading isn’t the answer, and why and how New Zealand needs to transition speedily to a green economy.

Dimitrov, an assistant professor in Western’s political science department, is no stranger to the talks. But, are our leaders actually serious? The goal was to reduce emissions by 5 per cent by 2012 from 1990 levels – an amount deemed necessary to prevent further warming.

China says it will aim to cut GHG emissions per unit of gross domestic product by 60 to 65 per cent from 2005 levels.

Unlike other developing nations, notably India, China favours the early implementation of a system for monitoring progress on countries’ carbon-cutting pledges.