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WEBVirtual. 11 - 13 Sep. 21st meeting of the Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage. Bonn, Germany. 11 - 13 Sep. Eleventh meeting of the Katowice Committee on the Impacts of the Implementation of Response Measures. Hybrid event, Accra, Ghana. 16 - 17 Sep. AT Calibration Workshop 2024.
The Paris Agreement | UNFCCC
WEBImplementation 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, known as nationally determined contributions (NDCs).
What is the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate …
WEBThe 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 ...
What is the Kyoto Protocol? - UNFCCC
WEBDec 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 ...
Key aspects of the Paris Agreement | UNFCCC
WEBSome 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 ...
Everything You Need to Know About the IPCC Report | UNFCCC
WEBThe report focuses on a number of areas, including: Fossil Fuels. The report makes it clear that the only realistic way to keep within 1.5C is to phase out coal use fully and reduce the amount of fossil fuels we burn. Every other measure from planting trees to carbon capture technology is secondary to reducing our dependence on fossil fuels.
The Explainer: The Paris Agreement | UNFCCC
WEBIt is a legally binding treaty adopted by 196 countries at the climate change conference in Paris in 2015 (known as COP 21). The main goal of the agreement is to cut global greenhouse gases in order to limit global temperature increases as close as possible to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Of course, this is just one part of the Agreement, with other ...
History of the Convention - UNFCCC
WEBThe 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 the temperature increase even further to 1.5 ...
UN Climate Change - Essential information - UNFCCC
WEBThe Paris Agreement was adopted by 196 Parties at COP 21 in Paris, on 12 December 2015 and entered into force on 4 November 2016. Find more information about the Paris Agreement and how technology, finance and capacity-building engage the world to keep temperature below 1.5° Celsius.The original text is available in all 6 UN languages .
The Evidence Is Clear: The Time for Action Is Now. We Can Halve ...
WEBApr 4, 2022 · For 1.5°C (2.7°F), this means achieving net zero carbon dioxide emissions globally in the early 2050s; for 2°C (3.6°F), it is in the early 2070s. This assessment shows that limiting warming to around 2°C (3.6°F) still requires global greenhouse gas emissions to peak before 2025 at the latest, and be reduced by a quarter by 2030.