{"id":49,"date":"2015-10-25T20:11:29","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T00:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cop21\/?page_id=49"},"modified":"2021-02-13T15:28:37","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T20:28:37","slug":"background-on-cop21","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cop21\/background-on-cop21\/","title":{"rendered":"Background on COP21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">From November 30<sup>th<\/sup> to December 11<sup>th<\/sup>, climate negotiators from more than 190 countries will meet in Paris, France at the 21<sup>st<\/sup> Conference of the Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Negotiators seek to produce the first legally binding and universal agreement on climate in over 20 years in order to keep global warming below 2\u00b0C. The ability of the international community to prevent the worst effects of climate change greatly hinges on the success of this agreement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Check out some of these links below for some more info!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bigpicture.unfccc.int\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UNFCCC&#8217;s new interactive guide<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.unfccc.int\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UNFCCC&#8217;s website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cop21paris.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COP21&#8217;s website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"COP21 video message from Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4tnIyAOKnBw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Laurent Fabius introduces Paris 2015 - COP21\/CMP11\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kJyY5xmFrpY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Christiana Figueres Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC&#039;s message\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N9EZtKWrItM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From November 30th to December 11th, climate negotiators from more than 190 countries will meet in Paris, France at the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Negotiators seek to produce the first legally binding and universal agreement on climate in over 20 years in order [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1171,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-49","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cop21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cop21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cop21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cop21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cop21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cop21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cop21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cop21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}