UN Climate Change Conference in Lima, Peru underway (1 – 12
December, 2014) is aimed at an effective new, universal climate
change agreement in Paris in 2015 while also raising immediate ambition
to act on climate change in advance of the agreement coming into effect
in 2020.Countries will put forward what they plan to contribute to the 2015 agreement in the form of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) by the first quarter of 2015, well in advance of the Paris conference in December of next year.
UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has this year warned against rising sea levels, storms and droughts as a result of unchecked greenhouse gas emissions, and highlighted the many opportunities of taking climate action.
UN Environment Programme has
underscored the need for global emissions to peak within the decade and then to rapidly decline so that the world can reach climate neutrality – also termed zero net emissions – in the second half of the century.
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