18 June 2009
Train(ing) for Copenhagen Prepare and train yourself for the milestone event in Copenhagen in December in 2009! Thursday 18 June 2009 The important United Nations Climate Change…
1 2 3 UN established the foundation for intergovernmental efforts to address “one of the most urgent environmental problems facing mankind” – the Climate Change in 1992 – in connection with the “Earth Summit”, the first World Summit for Sustainable Development, that took plac
UN established the foundation for intergovernmental efforts to address “one of the most urgent environmental problems facing mankind” – the Climate Change in 1992 – in connection with the “Earth Summit”, the first World Summit for Sustainable Development, that took place in Rio the same year. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was adopted by the World on 9 May 1992.
However, already in 1988, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established by the WMO and UNEP to assess the available scientific, technical, and socio-economic information relevant for the understanding of the risk of human-induced climate change. IPCC is the scientific advisory board to the UNFCCC.
UNFCCC is on a daily basis run by the UNFCCC Secretariat, while the supreme body of the UNFCCC is the called Conference of Parties (COP). COP takes place yearly and is where the top-level decision makers meet.