Climate change policy

The 194 states that participated at the United Nations (UN) Lima Climate Change Conference, which began in Peru on December 1, finally reached an agreement on the necessary measures to tackle climate change early on Sunday.

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UN members pressed ahead Sunday with a vision for a historic pact to defeat climate change by adopting a format for national pledges to cut Earth-warming greenhouse gases.
      
At a marathon conference in Lima, they also approved a blueprint to guide negotiations for the deal due to be sealed in Paris in December 2015.
      

Turkey ranks among the worst performers in dealing with rising CO2 emissions, according to a joined study submitted by Germanwatch and the Climate Action Network during the U.N. climate summit in Lima.

European Union insistence on a right to challenge nations about their plans for fighting climate change, in the run-up to a United Nations summit in 2015, opened a rift at U.N. climate talks in Lima on Dec. 9.

Half of nearly $8 billion in climate finance given to the developing world since 2003 went to just ten countries, and nations most at risk got the short end of the stick, a report said Dec. 8.
      

Balkans to align with EU 2030 climate and energy framework

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Dec. 4 he will travel to the climate conference in Peru next week and is hopeful that delegates will draft an agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming.

Environmental groups are demanding tighter rules on climate finance for poor nations after an Associated Press investigation showed Japan bankrolled coal-fired power plants with money earmarked for fighting global warming.

On the sidelines of U.N. climate talks in Lima, green groups on Dec. 4 urged the recently launched Green Climate Fund to exclude money for fossil fuels.

Negotiators from more than 190 countries get together Dec. 1 in Lima for the last main stop of the U.N. climate negotiations on the road to a planned global warming deal in Paris next year.

Developed countries must do more than their less wealthy counterparts to tackle climate change, the world's biggest polluter China said Nov. 25, reaffirming its longstanding position before a United Nations climate conference next month.