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The 2006 United Nations Climate Change Conference took place between November 6 and 17, 2006 in Nairobi, Kenya.The conference included the 12th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (COP12) and the second Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (MOP2).
An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary film about climate change and global warming, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. It has been credited for raising international public awareness of climate change and re-energising the environmental movement. Al Gore jointly wins a Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the film and climate efforts in 2007. [5]
Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press. pp. 383– 464. ISBN 978-1-107-05799-9. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 December 2017.
UN Energy Statistics Database [8] Fisheries. UN Food and Agriculture Organization [9] Forests. UN Food and Agriculture Organization [10] Fertilizer. International Fertilizer Industry Association [11] Food and agriculture. UN Food and Agriculture Organization. FAOSTAT [12] Population. United Nations Population Division [13] United Nations ...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had been formed by the United Nations in 1988, [29] [30] and it presents reports summarizing the strength and extent of consensus on climate change and its numerous aspects to the member states of the United Nations, with the major reports released at 5-to-7-year intervals starting from 1990.
Between 2006 and 2009, the Campaign against Climate Change and other British organisations staged a series of demonstrations to encourage governments to make more serious attempts to address climate change. [13] The 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen was the first UNFCCC summit in which the climate movement started ...
Logo of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 21st Conference of the Parties (COP 21) and 11th Meeting of the Parties to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol (CMP 11) from November, 30th till December 2015, 12th. The United Nations Climate Change Conference are yearly conferences held in the framework of the UNFCCC.
Climate change and poverty are deeply intertwined because climate change disproportionally affects poor people in low-income communities and developing countries around the world. The impoverished have a higher chance of experiencing the ill-effects of climate change due to the increased exposure and vulnerability. [ 1 ]