The ceremony corresponding to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP20) have begun this morning at the Military General Headquarters in Lima, Peru. 
The chairman of the COP19, held in Poland last year, Marcin Korolec, officially granted Peru the Presidency of the COP20.
 

Delegates from over 190 countries will meet in Lima, Peru on Monday to craft a draft climate change accord ahead of the final meeting in Paris next year.

Lima is the final main stop before global leaders head to Paris at the end of next year to finalize a global climate treaty aimed at slashing greenhouse gas emissions, the Associated Press reports.

The world's nations gathered in the Peruvian capital Lima on Monday in a renewed push for a deal to roll back carbon emissions threatening future generations.

The 12-day talks under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) take place amid grim scientific warnings and a surge in interest in sealing a pact in Paris in December 2015.

The United Nations annual climate change conference opens Monday in Peru, where a draft deal will be hammered out ahead of next year's Paris summit. Setting national targets will be crucial, according to the Swiss delegation head.
 

For two weeks starting Monday, Peru will host crucial climate talks. Negotiators from more than 190 countries will meet in Lima to work on drafts for a global climate deal that is supposed to be adopted next year in Paris. 

Saving carbon-sucking forests will certainly be part of any agreement. Ahead of hosting the UN climate talks, Peru pledged to halt deforestation in six years, safeguarding three-quarters of its rainforest - an area the size of France.

Hispanics and Latinos in the U.S. also stand out as among the more green of demographic groups on questions of climate change. Such is the upshot of data from a June Washington Post-ABC News poll, which we re-examined on the eve of the Lima meeting.

Spanish technological innovations and their ability to promote sustainable development will be presented on Tuesday in Lima to Peruvian companies during the U.N. Climate Change Conference, organizers said.
 

According to Banco de Credito del Peru (BCP), one of the largest banks in Peru, the economic growth would resume at about 5% in 2015 if the measures taken by the Government managed to reverse the business confidence deterioration and maximize the public investment.
 

The Peruvian government is reducing income taxes and increasing taxes on dividends to boost growth in the economy according to the Credicorp Capital Investment Bank.

"The analysis shows that the main change induced by the Peruvian government's tax reform included reducing income tax rates on companies gradually while raising taxes on dividends, so that the tax burden remains constant," reported Credicorp.

The government implementing this measure is a sign of encouragement for reinvestment into the Peruvian economy and therefore a boost to the country's growth.

Lima, while recognized as the nation's capital and a diverse metropolitan area, is certainly not known for having clean air. An inventor wants to change that- or at least, do what he can to improve the climate's smoggy condition.

Jorge Gutierrez, a local inventor and retired naval engineer, has created the concept of giant air purifiers that would double as billboards.

Peru's ministry of defense expects to receive its first 2 aircraft between March and April 2015, followed by 2 other planes in the following months, in line with the 4 C-27Js ordered so far