The 21st session of the Conference on Climate Change ends in Paris France today.
The world attention is focused on the final agreement expected to be reached in Paris, France today, December 11, 2015 on reducing greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the threat of dangerous warning due to human activities. Today will mark the end of the 21st session of the Conference of all Parties involved in fighting the effects of climate change (COP21) that started on November 30, 2015.
The final agreement to be reached and endorsed at the closing ceremony today will be the culmination of efforts and negotiations during different sessions. The general objective is a push for an ambitious, durable and legally binding deal with a stronger view every five years. Representatives of participating countries have come with a high ambition coalition for climate deal. BBC quoted the Foreign Minister of Marshall Islands, Tony De Brum as stating the general goal targeted when he said, "We will be fighting for some very basic issues.”
The issues he said, would concern the “Strong recognition of the below 1.5-degree temperature goal, a clear pathway for a low-carbon future, five-yearly updates and a strong package of support for developing countries, including delivery of 100 billion U.S. Dollars per annum.”
US lead negotiator, Todd Stern, echoing the call for the 1.5-degree target to be recognised in the eventual agreement said, "We need beyond the below 2-degree target; we need to have a recognition of 1.5 degrees in the agreement and we need a very strong and balanced transparency article so everybody knows what we are all doing.” He reportedly said that, "This is our moment and we need to make it count." The US Secretary of State, John Kerry while stating that, "science was screaming at us", announced a doubling of grant-based adaptation funding by 2020 to 800 million U.S. Dollars. COP 21 is chaired by the French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius.
