Barely
two weeks after the terror attack that left 129 persons killed and many
others injured, the French capital is ready to host 150 presidents,
prime ministers and heads of states for a crucial climate summit (2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference also known as COP 21/CMP 11) at Le Bourget, from Monday (30th November 2015) amid tight but unobtrusive security to Friday December 11th, 2015. According to the organizing committee, the objective of the 2015
conference is to achieve, for the first time in over 20 years of UN
negotiations, a binding and universal agreement on climate, from all the
nations of the world.
Pope Francis published an encyclical called Laudato si' intended, in part, to influence the conference. The encyclical calls for action against climate change. The International Trade Union Confederation has called for the goal to be "zero carbon, zero poverty", and the general secretary Sharan Burrow has repeated that there are "no jobs on a dead planet". The emcompassing aim of the convention is to reduce greenhouse gas emission to limit the global temperature increase to 2 degrees centrigrade above pre-industrial levels. During previous climate negotiations, countries agreed to outline actions they intend to take within a global agreement by March 2015. These commitments are known as Intended Nationally Determined Contributions.
By the end of the summit, the countries will decide with
consensus as to how would they jointly act to save the world from
adverse impacts of climate change under a global agreement.
I hope Nigeria will be well represented because we are so careless with our environment
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