Fears that the momentum from COP21 in Paris would fizzle in the following months appear to have been dashed at the official Paris Agreement signing session which took place in New York last Friday 22nd April.

It does set a path, but not one that in itself will deliver the temperature goal, or the overarching objective of the Convention.

Four days of fervent negotiations have delivered what the COP21 hosts had requested – another revised version of the Paris Agreement text for consideration ahead of the second and final week.

Following the entry into force of the Paris Agreement on 4th November, the 22nd meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change commenced in Marrakech.

Of the various COP21 headlines that have hit the media during the first few days of the conference, one of the most celebrated was President Obama's concession that "some" parts of the text should "have legal force".

It is nice to be reminded that, things can happen more quickly than anticipated. The ‘best estimate' for the crossing of the threshold for the entry into force of the Paris Agreement was the end of 2016.

It may be yet another challenging year for the banks, but the regulators face an equally challenging one as they attempt to reform and re-invigorate a fraying regulatory regime.

At the heart of any discourse are assumptions that are taken to be beyond question.

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Pension fund trustees and fund managers can no longer ignore the risk that climate change poses to their investments, particularly in the longer term.

The text finally agreed in Paris does not lend itself to easy navigation or digestion; the absence of sub-headings makes it necessary to dive into each paragraph in detail in order to understand the subject matter.

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This part of the Agreement establishes a "mechanism to contribute to the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions and support sustainable development", a device to support implementation through both market and non-market instruments.

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