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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.”

While Turkey might find it easier to find itself in a place in the new climate change regime, its main focus at the Paris summit will be to secure financial and technological assistance on emission mitigation, says Semra Cerit Mazlum, a prominent associate professor at Marmara University in IstanbulOne of Turkey's main focus in the Paris climate summit that will kick off on Nov.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius expressed regret on Nov. 12 over reported remarks by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry that the Paris climate summit will not deliver a binding treaty requiring countries to cut carbon emissions.

"I think that it's a formulation which could have been more fortunate," Fabius told journalists on the sidelines of the EU-Africa summit in Malta.

Countries' current pledges for greenhouse gas cuts will fail to achieve a peak in energy-related emissions by 2030 and likely result in a temperature rise of 2.6 degrees Celsius by the end of the century, the International Energy Agency said on June 15.

BELGRADE - Initial estimates indicate that the total property damage caused by extreme climate conditions in Serbia from 2000 onward exceed EUR 5 billion, State Secretary for Agriculture and Environment Protection Stana Bozovic has said.

Bulgaria's Environment Minister Ivelina Vasileva announced on Wednesday that BGN 13 M will be added to the national budget in 2015 from payments received by the National Trust Eco Fund.

BEOGRAD - According to the latest climate change mitigation research, Serbia ranks as 73rd among the 192 parties to the United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change, Serbian Minister of Agriculture and Environmental Protection Snezana Bogosavljevic-Boskovic said Monday, chairing the first meeting of the National Council on Climate Change.

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.
      

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.