Climate change

Changes that are directly or indirectly attributed to human activity and alter the composition of the world’s atmosphere and that is added to that caused by the natural climatic variability observed over comparable periods.

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COP

Conference of the Parties, countries who are signatories to the UN Climate Change Convention. With the entry into force of the Climate Change Convention in 1994, representatives of the signatory countries started to meet annually at the Conferences of the Parties...

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change or the Climate Change Convention

See UNFCCC.

The Stern Review

Paper commissioned by the government of the United Kingdom on the effects on the global economy of climate change in the next 50 years. It was coordinated by World Bank economist, Sir Nicholas Stern, and published on October 30, 2006. One of the main conclusions of...