United Nations Climate Change Conference

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius presented a landmark global climate accord on Dec. 12, a "historic" measure for transforming the world's fossil fuel-driven economy within decades and turn the tide on global warming.

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.

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.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras addressed his counterparts during the COP21 Climate Change Conference in Paris on Monday. He said the summit should be a historic turning point for a “global shift to a climate-friendly, sustainable society.”

The fights against terrorism and global warming are closely linked, French President Francois Hollande said on Nov. 30 as more than 150 world leaders met in Paris for the United Nations Cop 21 climate change conference two weeks after deadly Islamist militant attacks in France's capital. 

Serbia "submitted its greenhouse gas reduction plans in June this year," Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic told the UN Climate Conference in Paris on Monday.

This made the country "one of the first ten countries in the world - and the first in the region - to officially submit a national contribution plan," he said.

A total of 196 countries are expected to sign a new agreement on climate that will determine the fate of the world in the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 21, which will be held between Nov. 30 and Dec. 12 in Le Bourget, a commune in the northeast suburbs of Paris.

As world leaders gathered in Paris for the United Nations COP21 Climate Conference set to begin on Nov. 30, tens of thousands of people around the world joined one of the biggest global days of climate change activism ever on Nov. 29, to put pressure on world leaders to unite in fighting global warming at the summit in Paris.