Climate change policy

The delegates at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21), which is taking place in Paris between November 30 and December 11, managed to reach a draft agreement.

The delegates hope that the draft text could serve as the basis of an agreement to curb global carbon emissions.

The richest tenth of the world's people produce half of all carbon emissions, while the poorest half - most threatened by droughts and super storms linked to climate change - produce only one tenth, Oxfam said on Dec. 2. 

Beijing ordered hundreds of factories to shut and allowed children to skip school as choking smog reached over 25 times safe levels on Dec. 1, casting a cloud over China's participation in Paris climate talks.

Before the climate conference in Paris, there were huge "climate justice" demonstrations all over the world. The concept of climate justice is a new one that has emerged in recent years. It demands the addressing of production, consumption and commerce forms that generate climate change.  

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras addressed his counterparts during the COP21 Climate Change Conference in Paris on Monday. He said the summit should be a historic turning point for a “global shift to a climate-friendly, sustainable society.”

According to Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev, the fight against climate change is not only a moral duty, but also necessitates rethinking of the approaches towards achieving economic growth.

The fights against terrorism and global warming are closely linked, French President Francois Hollande said on Nov. 30 as more than 150 world leaders met in Paris for the United Nations Cop 21 climate change conference two weeks after deadly Islamist militant attacks in France's capital. 

Serbia "submitted its greenhouse gas reduction plans in June this year," Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic told the UN Climate Conference in Paris on Monday.

This made the country "one of the first ten countries in the world - and the first in the region - to officially submit a national contribution plan," he said.

A total of 196 countries are expected to sign a new agreement on climate that will determine the fate of the world in the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 21, which will be held between Nov. 30 and Dec. 12 in Le Bourget, a commune in the northeast suburbs of Paris.

While Turkey might find it easier to find itself in a place in the new climate change regime, its main focus at the Paris summit will be to secure financial and technological assistance on emission mitigation, says Semra Cerit Mazlum, a prominent associate professor at Marmara University in IstanbulOne of Turkey's main focus in the Paris climate summit that will kick off on Nov.