One of the biggest gatherings of world leaders out of United Nations General Assembly is set to begin in Paris to reach a deal to reduce global temperatures.
With participation from 190 countries in all, the summit will be attended by 40,000 delegates, journalists, observers and exhibitors.
As negotiators continue to be divided on cutting emissions and assisting poor nations all eyes are on the outcome of Paris talks.
World leaders pledging for immediate action, calls that time is running out, International bodies urging nations to wake up and act and summits over summits, nothing has really turned out to be effective at least that’s what the data says.
World Meteorological Organisation’s conclusion that Greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere reached a record high for the 30th year in a row, clearly shows ineffectiveness of the measures taken over the decades.
The Paris Climate Summit – Conference of Parties 21, comes close on the heels of United Nations warning that 2015 is set to be the warmest year.
The summit faces an uphill task of reaching a binding and universal agreement on climate.
We want an agreement to be reached, but not any agreement, one that is ambitious and binding, an agreement which can be reviewed so as to reach our aim to limit global warming below 2 degrees Celsius by the end of the century.
Negotiators remain deeply divided, with rich and developing nations arguing about who must do what to curb carbon emissions, and who must pay.
Unwillingness of developed countries to do more for cutting emissions and the dilly dallying towards contributions for funds they pledged in 2009′s Copenhagen summit to help developing nations is key to the trust deficit.
Developing countries are demanding a robust agreement that expands economic opportunities, not one that erodes their interests even as climate risks grow.