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November 30, 2015
Dozens of people from Colorado are now in Paris, along with 50,000 others, for the 21st annual Conference of Parties, known as COP-21.
President Barack Obama is among the world leaders from nearly every country on Earth, who are also attending the major summit about climate change. It’s expected to produce a new global agreement on how to reduce greenhouse gases and pollution. Colorado is right in the middle of the conversation and Marilyn Averill of Boulder is at the talks in Paris.
“The question is, what this agreement will do and how much of it is binding on the United States,” said Marilyn Averill, a fellow with the Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy and the Environment in Boulder.
Averill has attended every Conference of Parties meeting since 2003 and sits on one of the steering committees. She said that unlike previous years, there appears to be real momentum to get an agreement in place to deal with reducing emissions and greenhouse gases, which have been linked to climate change.
“Because there’s an actual agreement that is being proposed this year that they expect to have signed, hopefully, next week,” Averill said. Read more …
