The recent extreme cold weather that affected U.S and Canada and the life-threatening summer in Australia has prompted world leaders to bring back climate change in their agendas.
At most 200, governments have already confirmed their participation in the summit in Paris, which will happen in December 2015. The deal will be carried out to outline the plan in combating climate change and its implications. It is set to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which was finalized in 1977, in an effort to curb the emissions of countries from all over the world. However, the Kyoto Protocol did not impose any limitations to rapidly growing countries by then which included China and India.
Global leaders including U.S President Barrack Obama and Francois Hollande, France's president, campaigned for this "ambitious" climate deal for 2015, which will take into effect in 2020.
"Attention has been increasing ... sadly because of the increase in the frequency and intensity of natural events and disasters," Christiana Figueres, U.N. climate change chief told Reuters.
"The scale and speed of action needs to improve," she added. Figueres also recounted the recent natural disasters that have affected parts of the world including the Typhoon Haiyan, which devastated Philippines and Vietnam.
In 2013, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of UN has increased the possibility of mankind being the biggest driving force for climate change since the 20th century to 95 percent from 90 percent in their 2007 assessment.
Although most governments have not yet announced their plans for reducing emissions, there are some countries which are taking the initiative to reform their emissions policies, including China.
China is currently the world's top emitter of greenhouse gases, and their government has announced the distribution of incentives to help decrease emissions from various sources.
"It's very good that international leaders are increasingly recognizing the threat of climate change," European Union's climate commissioner, Connie Hedegaard told Reuters.
