Paris Climate Talks
More than 150 world leaders will be in attendance at
the 2015 U.N. Climate Change Conference
in Paris, France. The summit will last two weeks and will
allow world leaders to express their
concerns and ideas on how to better combat climate chan
ge. Leaders are expected to discuss:
mainly what's at stake with climate change, the steps nec
essary to stop it, whether there exists
enough political support to do this, what promises ea
ch leader should be pledging to go into the
Paris agreement, whether this agreement should be mor
e progressive, whether richer countries
will do more than poorer underdeveloped countries can
, and how the U.N intends to make this
agreement work. A draft agreement is already in the
works and is expected to be completed be
this coming Friday. Almost all countries in attendance
produced national plans for their
countries for curbing their greenhouse gas emissions after
2020, known also as Intended
Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC). The summi
t
’
s target is to ensure no more than a
two degree Celsius rise. Overall, the Paris talks have g
one as expected so far, however
whether they
’
ll be a success, we won't truly know until the end of ne
xt week.