| Author (Corporate) | European Parliament: European Parliamentary Research Service |
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| Series Title | Keysource |
| Series Details | 16.11.15 |
| Publication Date | 16/11/2015 |
| Content Type | Overview |
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The 21st session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will take place in Paris from 30 November to 11 December 2015. The objective is to reach a new international agreement on the climate, ‘a protocol, another legal instrument or an agreed outcome with legal force’, applicable to all parties of the Convention and aiming to keep global warming below 2°C. A draft text of the agreement , considered as ‘balanced and complete’ by the UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres and ‘manageable’ by the French Climate Change Ambassador Laurence Tubiana (see the press release ), is already available. This is the latest version, established in Bonn in October. The UNFCCC secretariat recently published a synthesis report on the aggregate effect of the 119 intended nationally determined contributions (INDCs) communicated by 147 Parties by 1 October 2015. The EU position was clearly announced in September 2015 (see the Council conclusions ) and the European Parliament voted an own-initiative resolution in October 2015. However, even if there has been some hard work carried out since the failure of the negotiations in Copenhagen in 2009, enthusiasm in Europe is shadowed by the consequences of the economic crisis. Uncertainty and fear regarding the EU industrial context sow doubts about the EU, and its Member States’ preparedness for the ambitious targets submitted to COP21. This also raises, once again, the question of the EU’s role in the future international process to combat global warming. Written by Dessislava Yougova. |
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| Source Link | http://epthinktank.eu/2015/11/16/are-we-ready-for-the-2015-conference-in-paris-eu-and-member-states-preparedness-for-cop21/ |
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| Subject Categories | Culture, Education and Research, Environment |
| Countries / Regions | Europe |
