By Christine Ottery and Ruth Davis | Eco Watch
1) What is COP21?
Between Nov. 30 and Dec. 11 politicians and global leaders from more than 190 countries will be involved in the United Nations 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21). They’re meeting in Paris to try and agree on a global legally binding climate treaty.
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2) Why is it important?
The goal of the talks are to agree on a plan that will avoid the worst impacts of climate change, such as more severe droughts, floods and storms. In practice, that means getting us on track to keep global warming below 2C—this is the agreed threshold that we must not let the planet’s warming exceed if we are to avoid catastrophic effects of climate change.
Some nations are already feeling the impacts of climate change even now, at the current level of just under 1C of warming on average. There are already people being officially called climate refugees, and conflicts exacerbated by climate change and extreme weather caused by climate change is on the increase. COP21 is also about supporting vulnerable countries and communities in adapting to the impacts of climate change that are happening right now.
Some nations, including an alliance of small islands, think the 2C threshold is too high and are advocating that we should stay within 1.5C of warming, which is the level of warming we may already be locked into.
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3) So what do we hope to come out of the talks?
We hope an internationally legally binding treaty comes out of the climate talks. Not a declaration or other empty promises, but something that legally binds nations and holds them to their commitment.
In order to achieve this, UN diplomats asked for more preparation to be done beforeCOP21 and a contribution from all states is required.
That’s where Intended Nationally Determined Contributions—or INDCs—come in. These are the pledges that countries responsible for more than 80 percent of emissions have made towards emissions reductions in advance of the talks.
However, these aren’t legal commitments—they are more like indications of intentions for the155 countries that have submitted them. But one of the aims of COP21 is to try and get parties to agree to a level of legal “bindingness” at Paris.
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While the INDCs submitted currently don’t add up to us staying within 2C of warming (according to a UNFCCC analysis), they are a good start. That’s because the INDCs signify what the biggest polluters—including the U.S., China, Europe and India—are willing to do to tackle global climate change. But the important thing is that there will need to be a mechanism thatreviews INDCs and ratchets up climate ambition after Paris, which will need to be agreed to at the talks.
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Climate changes,its called seasons
No matter what had caused climate change..people desire to live will never change. That is our infinity . Our culture of living . And that the reason we born in the world . We chose it in spirit of determined to explore the means of life.
Its fake.Remember when it was called global warming? Ofcourse he climate is going to change.Wow every body we have an emergency. The climate is changing(As it has for billuons years) and it’s all peoples fault.So the new Global government (UN)Is going to tax everyone.Perhaps this tenth planet in the solar system is effecting weather on every planet in our system including our sun? Just a thought
Don’t forget variations of the sun, one good solar fart could make things very toasty.
War is the worst environmental contaminant in human history.
war should be illegal, jude
climate talks should stop terrorism….talk talk talk
Thanks for the info
Not gonna happen!
Nathan is correct….you …the rest…nutzos
What about the fact that we Live on a chaotic planet within a Solar System within a Universe… Weather on this planet has FAR more to do with where we are in the cosmos, than who burns fossil fuels… WAKE UP.. CLimate Change is now being used to usher in Global Government… that is its true purpose
Stop geoengineering, the climate change thing is just another government tactic.
When are they having the Grimm’s and Mother Goose’s Fairytale summit to figure out how to save Unicorns!
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You And I Are Global Citizens
Currently Over 2 billion Deaths
PARIS IS A VICTIM OF A WORLD AT WAR
DO NOT ONLY PRAY
ACT
END ALL war victims
THE ONLY OPTION
WORLD PEACE
Dissolution Of Centralised Governance, Empowered People’s, Communities
Selfless Self Governance
The REAL Option
Real People Solving Community Issues, Locally, Globally
Remember The Promise,
Turn Poppies WHITE
Please Share and Make Peace Your Communities Priority
Create PEACE Globally,
Write To Your Local Rep, Councillor, MP
Unite The Light That Each Of Us Is
For Nature, For Communiverse, For Earth,
For Humanity
FOREVER
The True PEACE Promised By Each And Every Country, Each Government, All The Worlds Peoples, Our Fathers And Mothers, Sisters And Brothers
Must Be Created NOW!!!
It Is Us That Will Bring This To Life
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There Are No Soldiers,
No Civilians,
No Governments,
Only Victims
war victimises The Global Community
All Rights Must Be Re Gained
Criminalise war, Sanction waring Countries, With Reparation Orders, Turn Armies Purely To Aid, Repair, Rebuild Lives Countries
Spend The Multiple Billions Each Year Spent On death and destruction On Life, On The
Promised PEACE,
When darkness comes upon you turn to the light!
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If your a believer or a denier it is irrelevant. What is needed right now is a stronger global economy, with jobs and infrastructure in renewables to help slow down human degradation of the planet.
Pffft, they can’t stop terrorism but they’re going to stop the climate from changing…..tell them they’re dreaming.
It’d be great if they stopped modifying the weather!
wonderful!. perfect!. many other things!