NEWS & EVENTS

In the last twelve months, the climate change debate has taken a dramatic turn. The release of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report and the Stern Review report on The Economics of Climate Change, the movie An Inconvenient Truth, and the Nobel Peace prize awarded to the IPCC and Al Gore have galvanized public opinion and created a new momentum to address what many world leaders describe as the most serious challenge ever faced by human societies.

At the same time, it is now less than just 18 months before nations must agree on a new and fully formed climate treaty under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen in late 2009. As a part of its support to multilateral environmental agreements, and in close cooperation with the UNFCCC secretariat, UNEP works towards the successful outcome of these crucial negotiations.