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Tasneem Essop
Head – WWF SA Delegation to COP21


The 2015 Paris Climate Conference or COP21 (21st Conference of the Parties) gets underway from today (November 30th) and will continue until December 11th. 

For the first time in over 20 years of UN negotiations, the aim of COP21 is to achieve a legally binding and universal agreement on climate, with the aim of keeping global warming below 2°C which, as we were reminded a few weeks ago by Dr Peter Johnston of UCT’s Climate Systems Analysis Group, is the ceiling on global warming thought necessary to avoid the most serious effects of global warming.


COP21 gets underway in Paris

Between 30 November and 11 December 2015, COP21—the twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties, also known as the 2015 Paris Climate Conference—will, after twenty years of UN negotiations, aim to achieve a legally binding and universal agreement on climate, with the aim of keeping global warming below 2 degrees Celsius.

While nation leaders will make the ultimate decisions at the conference, contributions (or interventions) to the negotiations can and should come from everywhere across the world, from every part of society, from every person, young and old. So what can Melburnians do to make an impact, to make a difference, to have our voices heard? What about big cities and country towns, artists and NGOs? And will any of it make any difference at all?

Presented by Oceania’s division of the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI Oceania), this panel included Cathy Oke, City of Melbourne councillor; Guy Abrahams, co-founder and CEO of CLIMARTE; and Victoria McKenzie-McHarg, climate change campaign manager at the Australian Conservation Foundation. Listen in and raise your hand as the discussion asks what climate action we can take to stay under the tipping point and how we can get our leaders to take notice—because what they decide to do about climate change affects us all.

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