Climate Circus And Lack Of Will

As the year draws to a close, it has been put on record by scientists that this has been one of the warmest years of the past decade, rife with heat waves, rising sea levels and that most of these find their roots in climate change.

- Prachi Bhuchar

Every year, at the Conference of Parties (COP), under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), nations discuss how they can work together to mitigate the impact of climate change. There have been several watershed moments in these negotiations, the latest being the 2015 Paris Agreement, which was signed by almost 200 countries. The provisions of this agreement are expected to come into effect in 2020, so the latest COP in Katowice, Poland—the 24th such meeting—focused on its implementation. While more than 200 nations (minus the US) agreed on implementing the Paris Rulebook at Kato wice, there was a general sense that pledges made three years ago were insufficient.