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United Nations Climate Change conference

The  United Nations Climate Change Conferences  are yearly conferences held in the framework of the  United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change  (UNFCCC). They serve as the formal meeting of the UNFCCC Parties ( Conference of the Parties , COP) to assess progress in dealing with  climate change , and beginning in the mid-1990s, to negotiate the  Kyoto Protocol  to establish legally binding obligations for developed countries to reduce their  greenhouse gas  emissions. [1]  From 2005 the Conferences have also served as the "Conference of the Parties Serving as the Meeting of Parties to the Kyoto Protocol" (CMP); [2]  also parties to the Convention that are not parties to the Protocol can participate in Protocol-related meetings as observers. From 2011 the meetings have also been used to negotiate the  Paris Agreement  as part of the  Durban platform  activities until its conclusion in 2015, which created a general path towards climate action. The first UN Climate
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Paris Peace Conference, 1919

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The  Paris Peace Conference , also known as the  Versailles Peace Conference , was the meeting in 1919 of the victorious  Allied Powers  following the end of  World War I  to set the peace terms for the defeated  Central Powers . The conference involved diplomats from  32 countries and nationalities , and its major decisions were the creation of the  League of Nations , as well as the five peace treaties with the defeated states; the awarding of German and Ottoman overseas possessions as " mandates ", chiefly to Britain and France; the imposition of  reparations upon Germany ; and the drawing of new national boundaries (sometimes with  plebiscites ) to better reflect ethnic boundaries. The main result was the  Treaty of Versailles  with Germany, which in section 231 laid the guilt for the war on "the aggression of Germany and her allies". This provision proved humiliating for Germany and set the stage for the expensive reparations Germany was intended to pay (i
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