Combating climate change is one of the seventeen goals in the Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit in September 2015
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When the 21st Conference on Climate Change in Paris (COP21) and the 11th Conference of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol held from November 30 to December 11 last year approved the new comprehensive agreement
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covering the time period up until 2020 in international cooperation on climate, it became clear that states have come to the understanding that ...
... The price for getting all nations on board (US and China in particular) was a conceptual rethink of the top-down system of the Kyoto Protocol which defined a common target for GHG emission reductions and translated it into legally-binding targets for individual ... ... of the issues to be discussed in Paris.
Main elements of a Paris package
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Alina Yablokova:
Russia at COP21: An Opportunity to Reengage
with the West
At this point, there is no clarity on a legal form of a Paris outcome. The formal ...
... as leaders of the European Union, third largest emitter, will be present at the negotiating table in Paris.
It is seen as the “last effective opportunity” to avert dangerous consequences arising from climate change.
All eyes are now on COP21, which is the culmination of a lengthy and comprehensive diplomatic effort to draft a universal agreement that would replace the Kyoto Protocol. As costs of inaction, both environmental and financial, continue to mount, the conference in Paris is highly important. It is seen as the “
last effective opportunity
” to avert dangerous consequences arising from climate change....