Towards the Paris Agreement… a race for the nations
Towards the Paris Agreement… a race for the nations The lead up to the next conference of parties to the UNFCCC (COP21) coming up later in the year in Paris is gradually gathering a level of momentum which on the scale of measure could be ascribed as tilting towards been significantly ambitious with regards to the responses of countries to the submission of their respective Intended Nationally determined contributions (INDC). Following the rather low spirited outcomes of the Lima negotiations and the optimistic expectations from the much anticipated Paris negotiations in December, member countries to the UNFCCC have agreed on a predefined course of action in the regards of submitting nationally defined goals and targets as their relative intended contributions towards the global agreement in Paris and in the obvious turn, the industrialized nations are excepted to lead the rest of the world in coming up with substantive and clea...