ACP ASSESSMENT PAPER ON THE COP21 PARIS CLIMATE CHANGE AGREEMENT

The twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) took place from 30^th November to 11^th December 2015 in Paris (Le Bourget), France.

In preparation for COP 21 the ACP Secretariat organised a Special Meeting of the Subcommittee on Sustainable Development on 28^th and 29^th October, 2015 in order to develop an ACP Issues Paper on the Paris Climate Change Conference (COP 21) which was subsequently endorsed by the ACP Council of Ministers at its 102^nd Session held on 24^th and 25^th November, 2015.

This assessment paper compares the Paris Agreement to the ACP Issues Paper for the Paris Climate Change Conference (COP21) in order to highlight how ACP concerns were addressed the Agreement.