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1、關(guān)注世界大事 共謀和諧發(fā)展：Unit4 GLOBALWARMING （SEFC 6）2015 United Nations Climate Change ConferenceUnited Nations Climate Change ConferenceDate30 November 201511 December 2015LocationLe Bourget in the suburb ofParis, FranceAlso known asCOP 21/CMP 11ParticipantsUNFCCC member co

2、untriesWebsiteVenue siteUNFCCC siteFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 21 or CMP 11 is being held in Le Bourget, from November 30 to December 11.1 It will be the 21st yearly session of the Conference

3、 of the Parties to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the 11th session of the Meeting of the Parties to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.2 The conference objective is to achieve a legally binding and universal agreement on climate, f

4、rom all the nations of the world.34 Leadership of the negotiations is yet to be determined.BackgroundeditAccording to the organizing committee, the objective of the 2015 conference is to achieve, for the first time in over 20 years of UN negotiations, a binding and universal agreement on climat

5、e, from all the nations of the world.1Pope Francis published an encyclical called Laudato si' intended, in part, to influence the conference. The encyclical calls for action against climate change. The International Trade Union Confederation has called for the goal to be

6、 "zero carbon, zero poverty", and the general secretary Sharan Burrow has repeated that there are "no jobs on a dead planet".NegotiationseditThe overarching goal of the Convention is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to limit the global temperature increase t

7、o 2 °C above pre-industrial levels.6 However, Christiana Figueres acknowledged in the closing briefing at the 2012 Doha conference "the current pledges under the second commitment period of the Kyoto protocol are clearly not enough to guarantee that the temperature will stay below 2 °C and there is an ever increasing gap between the action of countries and what the science tells us."During previous climate negotiations, countries agreed to outline actions they intend to take within a global ag