A reflection on the Paris Conference of Parties

The Conference of Parties all began with the international political response to climate change and it began at Rio Earth Summit in 1992. This was where the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was included. The United Nations Framework on Climate Change which came into force in 1994 on the 21st of March, […]

The Conference of Parties all began with the international political response to climate change and it began at Rio Earth Summit in 1992. This was where the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was included.
The United Nations Framework on Climate Change which came into force in 1994 on the 21st of March, has about 195 parties as members. The Conference was held in Le Bourget, Paris from November 30th to December 11th with 190 states present with their intentions of wanting to validate the emission targets made by nearly all of the world’s governments, trying to prove to the developing countries that the help they need would be given them and also there would be transparency and accountability of everything that goes on in the meeting.
That was where every country, both developing and developed, produced a national plan which is known as Intended Nationally Determined Contributions. This conference took place two weeks after an attack on Paris by the Islamic State in Syria (ISIS), and so many would wonder why the meeting took place in Paris, but then it was already designed to take place in Paris as it was agreed on in the previous meeting, inasmuch as the country was in a state of insecurity.
The goal of the conference was to reduce greenhouse gas threat. The conference is important because France as a country is taking over the Conference of Parties presidency and because of this, it is saddled with the responsibility of acting as a facilitator among all parties to the negotiation so as to bring about an atmosphere that would be conducive and appropriate, bringing viewpoints together to ensure that an agreement is taken up towards a 100 percent agreement.
Another reason why this conference is important is so as to bring about an international climate agreement that would enable the world to limit global warming to below 2 °C, and this agreement must apply to all countries.
(Kuzan, wrote in from the Department of International Relations and Political Science Landmark University, Kwara State)