Matthew Hoffmann on UN climate summit

December 1, 2015

World leaders gathered in Paris on Monday for the crucial UN summit on climate change to negotiate a treaty to limit global warming to 2C, the widely accepted temperature threshold to avert catastrophic disasters. The conference objective is to achieve a legally binding and universal agreement on climate, from all the nations of the world. In a piece for The Globe and Mail, Political Science Professor Matthew Hoffmann discusses the expectations and implications of the conference being held in Paris from November 30th to December 11th. Professor Hoffmann is the co-director of the Environmental Governance Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs. The full article is available here.