Question: Where did 24th meeting of Conference of Parties (COP) 24 held recently?
(a) Scotland
(b) Wales
(c) London
(d) Poland
Answer: (d)
Related facts:
- The 24th Meeting of Conference of Parties (COP-24) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was organized at Katowice, Poland from 2nd December 2018 to 14th December 2018.
- COP-24 is very important as it is expected to finalise set of rules for implementation of the Paris Agreement adopted in 2016.
- The Indian delegation was led by Union Environment Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan.
- Parties admitted to trigger the work on setting up the new collective finance goals post-2020 from the floor of $ 100 billion.
- Indian scenario in context of COP-24:
- India strongly supports the objective of the Paris Agreement in order to mitigate the global hazards of climate change by keeping the temperature rise this century below 2℃ above pre-industrial levels and to seek efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5℃.
- The Agreement also aims at focussing on developing country parties’ and they need to adapt to adverse impacts of climate change, in a manner that it does not put an extra burden on them.
- India exhibited the same spirit of commitment and leadership as shown in the past.
- India’s expectation from COP-24 is that the decisions should be in conformity with the underlying principles of UNFCCC, its Kyoto Protocol and Paris Agreement including equity, CBDR-RC, and climate justice.
Links:
http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=186071
https://cop24.gov.pl/