Warming bells

From this author Caste and clan01 Dec 2018 Farmer’s knock01 Dec 2018 The 24th Conference of Parties (CoP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), that begins tomorrow in the Polish city of Katowice, is the global climate forum’s most significant meet after Paris, 2015. If the two-week long CoP accomplishes all […]

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Smoke rising from a factory as a truck loaded with cars crosses a bridge in Paris. The COP24 summit on climate change will take place in Poland’s southern city of Katowice from December 2 to 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

The 24th Conference of Parties (CoP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), that begins tomorrow in the Polish city of Katowice, is the global climate forum’s most significant meet after Paris, 2015. If the two-week long CoP accomplishes all that is on its table, it will have put together guidelines to operationalise the Paris Climate Change Agreement. This is significant because the Paris process relies on countries to take the lead in global warming mitigation with Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). At Katowice, negotiators are slated to draft the rulebook that is essential to ensure that the pact’s signatories are on track to achieve their commitments. The document will spell out how the signatories will report their global warming mitigation efforts, it will specify the yardsticks to chart their progress and elucidate what cooperation will look like in terms of providing support to countries in need of climate finance.