Experts in Washington are giving their forecasts on the upcoming Paris climate conference that will be held in Paris from Nov 30 to Dec 11, an event world leaders, including Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Barack Obama, will be attending.

Topics on the agenda at this year's conference include management of loss and damage caused by climate change, technological cooperation among countries, as well as the potential impact of climate change on global stability.

Ruth Greenspan Bell, a public policy scholar on climate change at the Woodrow Wilson Center, said that the conference in Paris marks a change in how the central challenge of our times is managed. "If you make a plan, you are more likely to act," she said.

Bell said that Obama's presidential campaign used that same principle very successfully.

Another big difference in this year's conference is that an increasing number of agreements and joint actions in the fight against climate change have taken place this year among countries, Bell said.

"In some countries, people are working together on new technologies and renewable energy. The US, Japan and other countries are leading research in some financial forecasts of coal sales," she said.

She said what is exciting is that the talks in Paris are happening in a broader context than any other international agreement.

"And we are actually more interested in taking a look at what will happen after the talks in Paris," she said. "One area that we are looking at in particular is how loss and damage caused by climate change will be addressed."

Meaghan Parker, senior writer at the Center for Climate Change and National Security, said that she looks forward to seeing how exactly climate change will have an impact on political stability and national security.

She is the lead author of a recently published report titled The Asia-Pacific Rebalance, National Security, and Climate Change, which argues that climate change influences the fragility of even seemingly stable countries.

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