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What is the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate …
The UNFCCC is a “Rio Convention”, one of two opened for signature at the “Rio Earth Summit” in 1992. Its sister Rio Conventions are the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and the Convention to Combat Desertification. The three are intrinsically linked. It is in this context that the Joint Liaison Group was set up to boost cooperation ...
The Paris Agreement | UNFCCC
Implementation of the Paris Agreement requires economic and social transformation, based on the best available science.The Paris Agreement works on a five-year cycle of increasingly ambitious climate action -- or, ratcheting up -- carried out by countries.Since 2020, countries have been submitting their national climate action plans, …
History of the Convention | UNFCCC
The Paris Agreement seeks to accelerate and intensify the actions and investment needed for a sustainable low carbon future. Its central aim is to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping a global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit …
Key aspects of the Paris Agreement - UNFCCC
Some of the key aspects of the Agreement are set out below: Long-term temperature goal (Art. 2) – The Paris Agreement, in seeking to strengthen the global response to climate change, reaffirms the goal of limiting global temperature increase to well below 2 degrees Celsius, while pursuing efforts to limit the increase to 1.5 degrees. Global ...
What is the Kyoto Protocol? - UNFCCC
Dec 8, 2012 · The Kyoto Protocol, like the Convention, is also designed to assist countries in adapting to the adverse effects of climate change. It facilitates the development and deployment of technologies that can help increase resilience to the impacts of climate change. The Adaptation Fund was established to finance adaptation projects and programmes in ...
COP28 Agreement Signals “Beginning of the End” of the
UN Climate Change News, 13 December 2023 – The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) closed today with an agreement that signals the “beginning of the end” of the fossil fuel era by laying the ground for a swift, just and equitable transition, underpinned by deep emissions cuts and scaled-up finance. In a demonstration of global solidarity, negotiators from …
Stakeholders across maritime value chain align to accelerate …
17 hours ago · Stakeholders across maritime value chain align to accelerate adoption of zero-emission fuels by 2030 for a sustainable shipping future Global industry leaders build on momentum from previous COPs to strengthen targets and commit to increasing the uptake of zero or near-zero GHG emission shipping fuels to at least 5%, striving for 10%, by 2030.
"Transparency enables stronger climate action. Each Biennial ...
1 day ago · The following is a transcript of remarks delivered by UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell at a COP29 event on 12 November 2024 to recognize the first countries to submit Biennial Transparency Reports (BTRs) under the Paris Agreement.
Climate Plans Remain Insufficient: More Ambitious Action
UN Climate Change News, 26 October 2022 – A new report from UN Climate Change shows countries are bending the curve of global greenhouse gas emissions downward but underlines that these efforts remain insufficient to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius by the end of the century. According to the report, the combined climate pledges of 193 Parties under the Paris Agreement ...