AWARD YEAR
2015
CATEGORY
Community
GOALS
Climate Action
KEYWORDS
climate, climate change, climate adaptation
COUNTRY
France
DESIGNED BY
UN
WEBSITE
http://newsroom.unfccc.int/
COP21
The United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP21 or CMP11 will be held in Paris, France in 2015.
This will be the 21st yearly session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 21) to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the 11th session of the Meeting of the Parties (CMP 11) to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.[2] The conference objective is to achieve a legally binding and universal agreement on climate, from all the nations of the world.
According to the organizing committee, the objective of the 2015 conference is to achieve, for the first time in over 20 years of UN negotiations, a binding and universal agreement on climate, from all the nations of the world.