Introduction
The last few weeks have seen an increasing number of
announcements and developments across the globe as the momentum
builds towards the critical international climate change
negotiations which will take place in Paris at the end of the year.
These negotiations are conducted under the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (Convention, also known as the
"UNFCCC"), and this year it is anticipated that the
negotiations will produce an agreement which lays out a plan for
global greenhouse gas reductions for the post 2020 period.
This update provides a high level overview of what can be
expected from the Paris climate change negotiations, and the events
that will take place in the lead up to the intense two week period
of negotiations in December. It also highlights a number of recent
developments which have the potential to have significant
implications for the resource and energy sectors, and which are
helping to fuel the optimism that a
