The Paris Climate Talks By the Numbers

An estimated 500 people, including world and business leaders, will take part in the COP21 climate talks in Paris next week, which will attempt to move the world forward on issues of climate change, sustainable energy, carbon emissions and green technology.

Conference venue organizers Climate Action said in a statement they felt “assured that security in Paris will be appropriate to the level of threat.”

COP21, the official name of the Paris climate talks, stands for the 21st Conference of the Parties. The meeting is an annual conference of nations that want to address climate and emissions issues, and is organized by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The first conference was held in in 1995. A year later, assembled countries agreed to accept scientific findings on global warming from an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). At the Copenhagen conference in 2009, countries committed to financing emissions reduction in the short and long term.

The number of days over which the conference will take place, from November 30 to December 11. The U.S., the European Union and environmental groups hope to walk away with a negotiated deal that will require similar conferences every five years, to review progress on emissions reduction.

The number of countries that have put forward plans to reduce emissions. At the conference, heads of state will meet with NGO leaders and environmental groups to discuss green technology and other methods to reach emissions goals.

How many heads of state are planning to attend COP21. U.S. President Barack Obama will join everybody from United Nations General Secretary Ban-Ki Moon and French President Francois Hollande to Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, the respective presidents of Russia and China, also will attend. Heads of states will be making speechs, beginning at 11 a.m. on November 30.

Number of attendees expected at the event, including 25,000 world government delegates, according to UNEP. - Read More at Newsweek

The Paris Climate Talks By the Numbers

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