Representatives from the world's nations meet in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on Nov. 6-18 to flesh out the rules of a new global climate pact. Decades of climate talks have spawned a host of acronyms and jargon. Here is a guide:
marked the first time a U.N. climate agreement mentioned the goal of reducing fossil fuel use.
Agreed in December 2015, the Paris Agreement aims to limit the rise in the average global surface temperature. Soberingly, the world has already heated up by just over 1C since the start of the Industrial Revolution. Even if all the pledges made so far are delivered, it is still on track for an average rise of 2.7C this century, aThe Conference of the Parties is the supreme body of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change , made up of representatives from each country that signed the Paris Agreement and which meets every year.
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