Peru will host the 2014 ministerial-level climate conference—a key meeting just one year before the deadline for a new, global deal on curbing global warming, the U.N. climate chief said Friday. Christiana Figueres announced that the preparatory meeting will be in Venezuela and the ministerial meeting will be in Peru. "Pre COP in Venezuela. COP in Peru. Thanks to both for leadership," Figueres wrote, using the climate jargon for a conference of parties to the U.N. Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC). Figueres was in Bonn, Germany, where a 12-day round of preparatory talks were concluding Friday. The 2013 climate meeting will be held in Warsaw, Poland from November 11 to 22. Nations are negotiating a universal climate deal that must be signed in 2015 and come into operation in 2020. The most ambitious plan yet dealing with global warming-induced climate change, the 2015 pact will for the first time bind all the world's countries to measurable targets for curbing Earth-warming greenhouse-gas emissions. The universal agreement will seek to limit global warming to a maximum 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial levels.
