Negotiating A New UN Climate Agreement: Challenges On The Road To Paris

A new international agreement to combat climate change is due to be adopted in December 2015 at the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

After the 2009 Copenhagen climate conference failed to adopt a new agreement, the 2011 Durban conference decided that a new agreement applicable to all countries should be concluded in 2015 and enter into force in 2020.

Written by Gregor Erbach.

[see related url hyperlink for November 2015 updated edition]

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European Parliament: Directorate-General for Internal Policies of the Union: Publications available via the EU Bookshop http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/directorate-general-for-internal-policies-of-the-union-cbf.cKABstF7wAAAEjwYYY4e5K/

EP: EPRS: In-Depth Analysis, March 2015: Negotiating A New UN Climate Agreement: Challenges On The Road To Paris http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/IDAN/2015/551347/EPRS_IDA%282015%29551347_EN.pdf

ESO: Paris Climate Change Conference, November-December 2015 http://www.europeansources.info/record/paris-climate-change-conference-november-december-2015/

European Parliament: European Parliamentary Research Service: Negotiating a new UN climate agreement: Challenges for the Paris climate change conference [November 2015 edition] http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/IDAN/2015/572794/EPRS_IDA(2015)572794_EN.pdf

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