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10 January: a summary from the Copernicus Climate Change Service stated that 2024 was the warmest year since records began in 1850, with an average global surface temperature reaching 1.6 °C above pre-industrial levels, surpassing for the first time the 1.5 °C warming target set by the Paris Agreement.
The Copenhagen Accord is a document which delegates at the 15th session of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change agreed to "take note of" at the final plenary on 18 December 2009.
The negotiations began to take a new format when in May 2009 UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon attended the World Business Summit on Climate Change in Copenhagen, organised by the Copenhagen Climate Council (COC), where he requested that COC councillors attend New York's Climate Week at the Summit on Climate Change on 22 September and engage ...
During the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 (COP15), there was a rival conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, for deniers, called the Copenhagen Climate Challenge, [1] which was organised by the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow. [2] [3]
The purpose of the Copenhagen Climate Council is to create global awareness of the importance of the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen, December 2009.Leading up to this pivotal UN meeting, the Copenhagen Climate Council works on presenting innovative yet achievable solutions to climate change, as well as assess what is required to make a new global treaty effective.
In January 2025, President Lula appointed Brazilian diplomat André Corrêa do Lago as the COP's president. [6] The decision was praised by Brazilian climate activists given Lago's history of leading climate justice discussions, among other things. [7] Lago is a veteran diplomat at Itamaraty (Brazil's Foreign Ministry) and a longtime climate ...
In 2015, the FSB created the Task Force in order to develop recommendations of voluntary disclosures for listed companies. However, ahead of the COP26 summit (2021), the UK responded to the clear 'leadership vacuum on climate change governance' [7] to become the first G20 country to mandate 1,300 of the UK's largest private companies to disclose climate-related data in line with the TCFD ...
Mendelsohn worries that climate change was set up to fail. [35] Michael Grubb, an economist and lead author for several IPCC reports, commented on the Copenhagen Consensus, writing: [36] To try and define climate policy as a trade-off against foreign aid is thus a forced choice that bears no relationship to reality.