PARIS — President Obama
and more than 100 world leaders will convene with thousands of
diplomats on Monday on the outskirts of Paris to open two weeks of
intense negotiations aimed at forging an accord that could begin to
avert the most devastating effects of global warming and redefine the economy of the 21st century.
Here is a guide to what is at stake. If the talks fail — as they did in
two previous attempts to achieve such a deal — then nations will
continue on a trajectory that scientists say locks the planet into a
future of rising sea levels, more frequent floods, worsening droughts,
food and water shortages, destructive hurricanes and other catastrophic
events.
Recent scientific reports have concluded that the first effects of
human-caused climate change have already started to sweep across the
Earth, from rising sea levels flooding Miami to savage heat waves in
Australia. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration projects that 2015 will be the hottest global year on record, beating the record set in 2014.
Article writen by Coral Davenport (in full) to The New York Times.
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