The two week-long talks are focused on finalising rules for global carbon markets and setting up a fund to help countries already reeling from climate-enhanced natural disasters.
COP25 is the final U-N climate summit before the so-called "defining year" of 2020, when many nations are required to submit new climate action plans.
Although the event is, above all, to define the political strategies to be adopted, in all this scientific knowledge is key. We talked about the role of science and the expectations of scientists from COP 25 with one of them, Carlo Buontempo director of Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) of the European Union.
