The new issue of the South Bulletin focuses on the preparations and progress made towards a new climate agreement in the Twenty-first session of the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP-21) to be held in Paris in December 2015, particularly during the COP-20 in Lima and a UNFCCC session in Geneva in February 2015.  These articles include:

• Substantive Negotiations to Begin in June for New Climate Agreement

• Understanding the Lima Climate Conference A Proxy Battle for the 2015 Paris Agreement

• Highlights of the Lima Decision on the Durban Platform

• The Climate Crisis is a Result of Corporate Profit, a New System is Needed – President Evo Morales of Bolivia’s Address in COP 20

• Equity as the Gateway to Environment Ambition

• Social justice, energy transition and climate change on the eve of the COP-21