12 NOVEMBER 2013
THE nineteenth conference of parties (COP19) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will run for the next two weeks in Warsaw, Poland. The main outcome expected from this meeting is to put in place a road map with clear milestones for reaching a major new climate change agreement in two years time at the twenty first COP (COP21) which will be held in December 2015 in Paris, France. There will be one more COP in Lima, Peru in December 2014 a year from now before we get to Paris in December 2015. Some of the major issues that will need to be discussed and resolved are described below.
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