The UN Climate Summit in New York on Tuesday (September 23) brought together more than 120 Heads of State and Government to discuss national plans of action. It was the largest number of world leaders ever to attend a climate conference, though there were some notable absentees including the Presidents of China and the Russian Federation and the Prime Minister of India.
The Summit was not intended as a formal negotiation on climate change but as an extraordinary meeting to try to put the issue of climate change back on the political agenda and lay the groundwork for the UN climate conference in Lima, Peru, in December and for the Paris meeting next year where the goal will be the creation of a binding environmental agreement to come into effect after 2020.
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