Climate: towards a minimum agreement at the conference in Lima
The UN climate conference in Lima should lead to a minimal agreement, according to the Peruvian Minister of Environment .dropoff window It will leave the meeting in Paris in 2015 to settle the crucial issues. The conference was extended by at least one day Saturday.
Manuel Pulgar-Vidal said Saturday morning delegates that a new compromise is not perfect, but it would at least reflect the points agreement. The agreement aims to bring out the deadlocked negotiations.
The conference in Lima is the last major event before the Paris appointment which should be concluded first universal and binding agreement on climate. This agreement should help limit the rise in global temperatures after 2020 (the Kyoto Protocol, negotiated in 1997, did not set quantified targets only for developed countries).
Last year, affected countries pledged to make public their goals at least six months before the Cop-21. The 21st Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change will take place in December 2015 in the French capital.
“Serious concerns”
In Lima, the debates of the Cop-20 pledged earlier this month on a positive dynamic. The United States, China and the European Union had just announced concrete targets for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases.
“We are pushing the big issues in Paris,” said one delegate during a break. The discussions were devoted to ways to avoid floods, heat waves, droughts and rising sea levels.
The new compromise draft expresses “serious concern”. He describes insufficient measures aimed at limiting the average rise in global temperature to two degrees Celsius
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