What is the Global Climate Summit?The Global Climate Summit or the United Nations Climate Change Conference is a global agreement to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and to limit global warming. At least 55 countries have to have an agreement on it for ratification, acceptance, and approval or accession. The goal from agreement is to limit temperature increase by two degrees from the Paris Agreement.
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Global Climate TodayThe 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 21 or CMP 11 is being held in Paris, France from November 30,2015-December 12,2015. This conference marks the 21st yearly session and has reached its objective for the first time on an agreement for a climate change to reduce greenhouse emissions. Countries make negotiations and commitments called Intended Nationally Determined Contributions or INDCs. The agreement has been said to solve global warming and cutting greenhouse emissions by about half. But this can also cause "severe droughts and flooding, widespread food and water shortages and more destructive storms."-NYTimes |