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First World Climate Conference
climate change was officially acknowledged as a serious problem needing an international response. -
Intergovernmental panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
IPCC is a collaborative body comprising over 2,000 climate scientists . The main activity is to provide at regular intervals as an assessment of the state of knowledge on climate change. -
First IPCC Report on Climate Change
climate change was a reality supported by scientific data. -
Conference of the Parties (COP)
The first Conference of the Parties (COP 1) to the UNFCCC was held in Berlin, Germany. Parties agreed that mechanisms under the UNFCCC were inadequate and agreed to what would be called the Berlin Mandate, which allows parties to make specific commitments. -
The Kyoto Protocol
The Kyoto protocol was signed by 160 nations at the third UNFCC conference. The protocol calls for the first-ever legally binding commitments to reduce carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gas emissions to 5.2% below 1990 levels before 2012. -
Global Economic Crisis
reduction in International will negotiate on carbon emission reductions as national economies fall but this fall results in lower GHG emission from the industry. -
Fifth IPCC report
this report was the strongest warning yet that global warming in happening human activities are mostly causing it through burning fossil fuels and increasing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. -
Paris Agreement
The Paris Agreement is a legally binding international treaty on climate change. It was adopted by 196 Parties at COP 21 in Paris, on 12 December 2015 and entered into force on 4 November 2016.
the goal was to limit global warming to well below 2, preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius, compared to pre-industrial levels. -
UN Chief Plan Climate Action Summit
UN Climate Action Summit for world leaders in New York. Leaders of world's top carbon-emitting countries, including the United States and China, do not attend. At the summit, Guterres asks countries to submit plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 45 percent by 2030. -
COP 26 postponed due to COVID-19
The United Nations postpones COP26, originally scheduled for November 2020, until 2021 because of a pandemic of a new coronavirus disease. Countries were expected to strengthen their emissions reduction goals set under the Paris Agreement. Amid the pandemic, emissions fall worldwide as many countries implement nationwide shutdowns.