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28/10/22 13:08 PM IST

2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference

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  • The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) is set to be held from November 6 to 18 this year.
About COP 
  • The Conference of Parties (COP) is the apex decision making body responsible for monitoring and reviewing the implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
  • The COP presidency rotates among 5 UN regions – Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Central and Eastern Europe and Western Europe and others.
  • Egypt will assume the Presidency of COP 27.
  • The Government of Egypt will host the 27th Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP 27) at Sharm El Sheikh.
  • This is the fifth time that a Conference of the Parties (COP) is being held in Africa. 
  • The COP27 will focus on three main objectives – emission reduction, help countries prepare and respond to climate change and provide technical aid and funding for developing countries to respond to climate change.
About UNFCCC
  • The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), signed in 1992 at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development also known as the Earth Summit, the Rio Summit or the Rio Conference.
  • India is among the select few countries to have hosted the COP of all three Rio conventions on climate change (UNFCCC), biodiversity (Convention on Biological Diversity) and land (United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification).
  • The UNFCCC entered into force on 21st March 1994, and has been ratified by 197 countries.
  • It is the parent treaty of the 2015 Paris Agreement. It is also the parent treaty of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.
  • The UNFCCC secretariat (UN Climate Change) is the United Nations entity tasked with supporting the global response to the threat of climate change. It is located in Bonn, Germany.
Source- India Today 

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