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The United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP20 or CMP10 was held in

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, from December 1 to 12, 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 The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) established an international environmental treaty to combat "dangerous human interference with the climate system", in part by stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in th ...

(UNFCCC) and the 10th session of the Meeting of the Parties (CMP 10) to the 1997

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. 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

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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.

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

References

External links

COP20 website

People's Summit COP20
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