UNFCCC: UN Climate Change Conference Launches Monday on Massive Global Swell of Action

The nations of the world gather on Monday in Paris to reach a new and universal climate change agreement, in the knowledge that they have already delivered an almost universal set of national responses to meet the long-term climate challenge before the conference even begins.

On the eve of the COP21 conference, well over 180 countries covering almost 95 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions had delivered their national climate action plans to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

In another unprecedented signal of the global political will to reach an agreement, over 150 heads of state and gvernment are coming to Paris to give their public support on Monday, the largest group of leaders ever to attend a UN event in a single day.

The national plans and arrival of leaders also reflect growing government confidence in the global response by tens of thousands of companies and investors and thousands of mayors and regional governments who have announced their commitment to the essential economic and social transformation to low-carbon, sustainable growth and development.

Fulfilling this huge and gathering global response from all levels of government, business and investment will keep the world within affordable reach of staying below a 2 degree Celsius temperature rise this century, the internationally-agreed defense line against the worst climate impacts.

The central job of governments in Paris is to capture this overwhelming momentum in an international agreement that drives ever higher ambition over time and encourages all countries to cooperate in their own national interests to make a more rapid transition to the low-carbon future that will keep the world below 2 degrees.

Source: Notification from UNFCCC from 29.11.2015The nations of the world gather on Monday in Paris to reach a new and universal climate change agreement, in the knowledge that they have already delivered an almost universal set of national responses to meet the long-term climate challenge before the conference even begins.

On the eve of the COP21 conference, well over 180 countries covering almost 95 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions had delivered their national climate action plans to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

In another unprecedented signal of the global political will to reach an agreement, over 150 heads of state and gvernment are coming to Paris to give their public support on Monday, the largest group of leaders ever to attend a UN event in a single day.

The national plans and arrival of leaders also reflect growing government confidence in the global response by tens of thousands of companies and investors and thousands of mayors and regional governments who have announced their commitment to the essential economic and social transformation to low-carbon, sustainable growth and development.

Fulfilling this huge and gathering global response from all levels of government, business and investment will keep the world within affordable reach of staying below a 2 degree Celsius temperature rise this century, the internationally-agreed defense line against the worst climate impacts.

The central job of governments in Paris is to capture this overwhelming momentum in an international agreement that drives ever higher ambition over time and encourages all countries to cooperate in their own national interests to make a more rapid transition to the low-carbon future that will keep the world below 2 degrees.

Source: Notification from UNFCCC from 29.11.2015