United Nations: Framework Convention on Climate Change

With 197 Parties, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has near universal membership and is the parent treaty of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. The Kyoto Protocol has been ratified by 192 of the UNFCCC Parties.

The ultimate objective of both treaties is to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that will prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system.

Find information via the Source and related url hyperlinks.

In addition, to find information (including primary data, news sources, analysis and commentary) on specific Conferences of the Parties use these hyperlinks:

Marrakech Climate Change Conference - 7-18 November 2016 - COP22
Paris Climate Change Conference - November - December 2015 - COP21
20th UN Climate Change Conference in Lima, 1-12 December 2014 - COP 20
UN Climate Change Conference, Warsaw, 11-22 November 2013 - COP 19
United Nations Climate Change Conference 2012, Doha, 26 November - 8 December 2012 - COP 18
United Nations Climate Change Conference 2011, Durban, South Africa - COP 17
United Nations Climate Change Conference, 7-18 December 2009 - COP15
United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poznań, 1-12 December 2008 - COP 14

• Primary Source

UN: Sustainable development goals: Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/climate-change-2/

Website: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change http://newsroom.unfccc.int/

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