The United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP20 or CMP10 was held in Lima, Peru, from December 1 to 12, 2014.Rio Conventions Calendar. Accessed: 17 April 2014. This was the 20th yearly session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 20) to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the 10th session of the Meeting of the Parties (CMP 10) to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. The conference delegates held negotiations towards a global climate agreement.
Background While this was conference in the annual series, more attention is directed towards the 2015 conference in Paris. A statement made by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon forecast the climate change summit to be held in September 2014, but made no organizational reference to the 2014 conference in Lima or the Paris conference.
Negotiations The overarching goal of the conference was to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) to limit the global temperature increase to 2 degrees Celsius above current levels.
European Union The EU aims a legally binding 40% drop in emissions by 2030 against carbon output in 1990 as baseline.UN climate change deal must have legally binding targets, says EU The Guardian 27.11. 2014
Politics of oil producing countries Before the Conference on Climate Change, oil producing countries increased the oil production and oil became cheaper than it had been for years.Falling oil prices offer the west a great chance to refashion itself. Let’s seize it, With the black stuff cheaper than it has been in years, Europe’s governments must invest in their infrastructure The Guardian 30.11. 2014
See also
Post–Kyoto Protocol negotiations on greenhouse gas emissions Politics of global warming IPCC Fifth Assessment Report
References
External links
COP20 website People's Summit COP20