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Understanding the Lima Climate Conference: A proxy battle for the 2015 Paris Agreement [1]

What happened at the Conference of Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Lima in December 2014 is a prelude to the bigger battles that can be expected in the three or four meetings scheduled for this year in order to negotiate an entirely new climate agreement in Paris in December. If it took two whole weeks to reach consensus on a simple text in Lima, how much more contentious and difficult the negotiations will be for a new agreement?

Publication Date: 
07/02/2015
Martin Khor [2]
Economic and Political Weekly [3]
37-44
Tags:
COP 20 (Lima) [4], UNFCCC [5], Climate Agreements [6], Developing Countries [7], Africa [8], India [9], China [10], United States Of America (US) [11], European Union (EU) [12], Climate Equity [13], Climate Mitigation [14], Climate Change [15]
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