Countdown to Copenhagen

Global Warming -- a reminder of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

Dear all,

Here's an extract from the UNFCCC website, just to remind ourselves of a burning issue, a ticking bomb, an alarm bell that has been silenced by the credit crunch and, here in the UK, by the MPs' ridiculous milking of the system which has resulted in the allowances scandal and has caused about half the MPs to leave their posts. Will it improve the system? I fear not. Will it help the climate? Hardly.

We need to focus our action. This is one way of doing it. Thank you, Low Carbon Communities, for the link and the information.

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The Climate Convention and the Protocol

Over a decade ago, most countries joined an international treaty -- the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) -- to begin to consider what can be done to reduce global warming and to cope with whatever temperature increases are inevitable. More recently, a number of nations approved an addition to the treaty: the Kyoto Protocol, which has more powerful (and legally binding) measures. The UNFCCC secretariat supports all institutions involved in the climate change process, particularly the COP, the subsidiary bodies and their Bureau.

This section contains numerous resources -- for beginners or experts -- such as introductory and in-depth publications, the official UNFCCC and Kyoto Protocol texts and a search engine to the UNFCCC library.

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