The Warsaw talks are a staging post on the route to the 2015 United Nations climate summit in Paris, at which governments will seek to forge an agreement that prevents dangerous climate change, defined as global warming of more than two degrees Celsius. Failure would expose future generations to catastrophic climate risks, while trapping millions of people in poverty as a result of more frequent, intense, and protracted droughts, floods, and storms.
华沙谈判是2015年巴黎联合国气候峰会之前的预热。在巴黎峰会上，各国政府将寻求形成防止气候变化（其定义是全球变暖超过二摄氏度）的协定。失败将让子孙后代面临灾难性气候风险，让几百万人因为更频繁、剧烈和长期的干旱、洪水和风暴而陷入贫困。