Climate change policy

"For the first time, every country in the world has pledged to curb emissions, strengthen resilience and join in common cause to take climate action, What was once unthinkable has become unstoppable," Ban Ki-moon, U.N. Secretary General tweeted following the climate accord in Paris.

A historic agreement attempting to limit the rise in global temperatures to less than 2C has been reached at the climate change summit in Paris.

After two weeks of negotiations ministers and bureaucrats from all over the world decided to cut carbon emissions.

International delegates are close to agreeing on a deal that would put constraint on global warming.

The text discussed at the summit, which is now running into its third week (after being scheduled to last a fortnight) will be legally binding if approved.

Climate talks were ongoing in Paris for two weeks, but somehow our media was not very interested in them.
We'd rather monitor the developments on the chaos in the Middle East, where greed, power and ambition play quite a role.

With regard to the landmark international climate conference in Paris, it is obvious that 2015 marks a turning point in international efforts to combat climate change. For the first time in 25 years of climate diplomacy we see that all major emitting countries are prepared to take concrete action to reduce or limit.

Agreements on the table signaling commitments by countries, regional governments and companies are promising for the prospect of tackling carbon emissions and energy transition, but a binding agreement is not likely to emerge from the COP21 Climate Summit in Paris, according to Samantha Smith, the head of the WWF Climate and Energy Initiative.

The delegates at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21), which is taking place in Paris between November 30 and December 11, managed to reach a draft agreement.

The delegates hope that the draft text could serve as the basis of an agreement to curb global carbon emissions.

The richest tenth of the world's people produce half of all carbon emissions, while the poorest half - most threatened by droughts and super storms linked to climate change - produce only one tenth, Oxfam said on Dec. 2. 

Beijing ordered hundreds of factories to shut and allowed children to skip school as choking smog reached over 25 times safe levels on Dec. 1, casting a cloud over China's participation in Paris climate talks.

Before the climate conference in Paris, there were huge "climate justice" demonstrations all over the world. The concept of climate justice is a new one that has emerged in recent years. It demands the addressing of production, consumption and commerce forms that generate climate change.