Charleen Fondrevay, one of the Environment Team members, will be helping to report on the Climate Conference in Paris. Charleen lives in Madrid where a climate march held on November 29. If you live elsewhere on the globe, we hope you found out what was happening close to you and got involved!
The Alianza por el Clima, a group of 400 Spanish organizations...
United Nations Climate Conference (Paris, 2015)
Alphabet soup definitions
While the United Nations is a wonderful organization, they are sometimes a bit hard to follow…all those acronyms. Below you will find explanations of every acronym found on the agenda of the Climate Conference in Paris.
From November 30 - December 11 2015, world leaders will meet in Paris for the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21) to the UN’s Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Negotiations on climate change began at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, which launched the UNFCCC – a framework aimed at stabilizing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases. The UNFCCC's...