Lima Climate Change Conference (COP-20)

The next round of negotiations to produce a renewed global agreement on carbon emission reductions will be held in Lima, Peru from Dec. 1 to 12, 2014.

The Lima climate change conference, formally know as the “20th Conference of the Parties” (or COP 20) is organized by the United Nations, and the document being negotiated is formally known as the “United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change”(UNFCCC). 

The Lima climate change conference brings together government officials from almost every country in the world who are tasked with negotiating on behalf of the country they represent. Many representatives from non-profit organizations, other UN agencies and the business community will also attend COP 20 as official observers. 

COP 20 is considered a very important meeting because it will be one of the last official negotiation meetings before COP 21 which will be held in Paris, France in December, 2015. The Paris climate change conference will be a much larger and more important meeting because heads of state will participate directly in the negotiations with the goal of reaching a new, long-term and legally binding deal to reduce global carbon emissions. 

The global DeSmog team will be on-the-ground reporting from the Lima Climate Change Conference, see below for our lastest coverage of the event.

Photo credit: UN Climate Change on Flickr