The twelfth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP-12) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is November 6-17 in Nairobi, Kenya. This is the annual international meeting to assess the progress of global efforts to address climate change.
The Conference of the Parties has been meeting each year since the UNFCCC--an international treaty to combat global warming--entered into force in 1994. The Kyoto Protocol, which provides for legally-binding reductions of greenhouse gas emissions for most industrialized nations by 2012, was adopted at COP-3, but did not enter into force until Febuary, 2005. This conference will also be the second meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (MOP-2).
WRI at COP-12
Several WRI staff members will be at COP-12. For more details of WRI's engagement in this meeting, including side events and relevant publications, please see the WRI at COP-12 Webpage.
In addition, WRI will be providing information as well as first-hand accounts of COP-12 events on the WRI COP-12 Blog.
RELATED LINKS:
Multilateral Agreement Status: UNFCCC
Multilateral Agreement Status: Kyoto Protocol (CO2 emissions)
WRI's Climate Analysis Indicators Tool (International and U.S. Emissions Data)
