it’s cop 29 and that means talking about complicated and difficult climate issues you might feel like you need a dictionary to understand what’s happening so let’s break it all down firstly cop it stands for Conference of the parties the annual Summit where world leaders and other parties get together to talk about climate change Solutions the Paris agreement this is The Benchmark for much of what is discussed each year at cop and it refers to a 2015 treaty signed in Paris where countries agreed to try to limit global warming to well below due to de C NC qg the new Collective Quantified goal on climate finance an annual Target for the amount of money developed Nations need to put in to fund climate efforts loss and damage is a term that you’ll hear a lot and most of the time it will be used to refer to a loss and damage fund this will be used to help poorer countries deal with the effects of climate disasters NDC stands for nationally determined contribution it’s each country’s plan for how they’re going to reduce emissions