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The road after Paris
23 October 2017
by Jonathan Andrews
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23 October 2017
by Jonathan Andrews
Jonathan Andrews explores how ICLEI Europe is driving sustainability initiatives to help cities achieve the Paris Agreement goals
The ghost of the failed 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen cast a long shadow over successive climate change summits, recalls Yunus Arikan, Head of ICLEI Global Policy and Advocacy.
COP15, as it is better known, was preceded by enormous pressure to succeed. Late night and tense negotiations between countries up until the last day were in vain. By the end of the conference the parties had failed to reach a legally binding and unanimous agreement on commitments to reduce CO2 emissions. It was not until 2014 that a path towards an agreement...
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