Dear collegues, We are hours from adopting the Paris Agreement. Final meeting begins in 30 minutes! Many main players have accepted the text. The island delegations sang a song in their meeting. We keep fingers crossed that India, Malaysia, Venezuela, some other Latin countries will, too. (They are ones most likely to oppose it.)
A few key elements: * Goal of limiting temperature rise "well below 2 degrees" and "pursue efforts to limit to 1.5 degrees" * No quantitative targets for 2050 but peak emissions as soon as possible * Compromise language: "Each Party shall prepare, communicate and maintain successive nationally determined mitigation contributions it intends to achieve" * Ensure increase in ambition of national policies over time * Fairly strong monitoring and reporting of national actions * Finance from all, with differentiation: Commitments on finance from developed countries while developing countries like China are "encouraged to provide financial support voluntarily" Watch top story in English from French television: http://www.france24.com/en/20151212-draft-agreement-ready-paris-climate-summit-un-officials-say Stay tuned! Rado Dimitrov Radoslav S. Dimitrov Associate professor Department of Political Science University of Western Ontario London, Ontario Canada N6A 5C2 Tel. +1 519-661-2111 ext. 85023 -- Radoslav S. Dimitrov, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Political Science University of Western Ontario Social Science Centre London, Ontario Canada N6A 5C2 Tel. +1(519) 661-2111 ext. 85023 Fax +1(519) 661-3904 Email: rdimi...@uwo.ca -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
