COP 20 Lima: The Ethical Dimension of Climate Negotiations on the Way to Paris-Issues, Challenges, Prospects

摘要

In December 2014, 196 Parties convened in Lima for the 20th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 20). The meeting in Lima was, in many respects, a turning point in the history of climate negotiations. At COP 17, held in Durban in 2011, a four-year accelerated round of negotiations, known as the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action, had been launched. Parties entered this round with the objective of reaching an international agreement by COP 21 in December 2015, in Paris. Lima was a turning point because, while the round of negotiations started off almost with an open slate, some of the key elements of the new agreement's architecture took shape by the end of the conference in Lima, and the previously inchoate Paris agreement, the successor to the Kyoto Protocol, began to take shape.