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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]
The Geological Society of America (GSA) concurs with assessments by the National Academies of Science (2005), the National Research Council (2006), and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2007) that global climate has warmed and that human activities (mainly greenhouse‐gas emissions) account for most of the warming since the ...
The United Nations appeals for US$240 million of food aid for West Africa to feed at least 10 million people affected by the food crisis, with Niger being the worst-affected country. (Reuters) A dockworkers ' strike in Europe has thousands of workers off the job in protest over proposed liberalization of European Union rules on port services.
News. April 19, 2007, Reuters: World needs to axe greenhouse gases by 80 pct: report; February 1, 2006, Euractive: UK chief scientific adviser: Keeping CO2 concentration below 450ppm is 'unfeasible' January 30, 2006, BBC: Stark warning over climate change; January 30, 2006, BBC: Climate report: the main points
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 ...
The timeline of international climate politics is a list of events significant to the politics of climate change. Since 1995, yearly United Nations conferences of the parties have been the primary forum for international discussion of political response to the threat of climate change.