It’s that time again for the annual climate change conference, better known as the Conference of the Parties (COP). This year COP is being held earlier in the year, in keeping with recent developments requiring urgency and action. COP22 will be held in Marrakech, Morocco, and the world is preparing for a historic and unexpected engagement. The Paris Agreement was adopted in December 2015, it was available for sign-on by global leaders on April 22 and, following exceptional accelerated ratification by 81 countries, it will enter into force on November 4 at COP22. We are approaching an important crossroad at this COP. Critical issues still need to be resolved for the global community to successfully implement the historic package agreed at COP21 in Paris last year. A successful COP21 was critical to progress — this was where a post-2020 international climate agreement was to be finalised, agreed and adopted by the parties (governments) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change ...
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