01 December, 2015

World leaders gather in Paris for landmark UN climate change conference


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s Paris remains in a state of emergency following the recent terrorist attacks, 40,000 world leaders and diplomats are gathering for a landmark United Nations climate change conference.

World leaders – including Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull – will open the 21st Conference of Parties (COP 21) to the UN’s Climate Change authority on November 30.

Leaders will have to agree on a way to tackle climate change; a solution has been planned since the 1992 COP.

And given coming to this agreement means 195 nations must all agree to a way to tackle climate change, it’s no surprise a decision has been 23 years in the making.

It is believed that the decision from the conference will be the world’s first truly universal plan on limiting greenhouse gas emissions.

Read Anthony Colangelo’s story on The New Daily - “What is the UN Climate Change Conference?”

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