The road to Paris: A history of climate summits

The fate of the world may just be decided at a conference in Paris that starts next week, November 30. This United Nations climate change conference, known as the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21), hopes to come up with the world’s action plan to combat global warming.

But the road to this Paris summit began 3 decades ago at the world’s first major climate change conference in 1979. Take a look at this Rappler infographic and retrace the history of climate summits.

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