COP25
UN Climate Change Conference 2019 in Madrid
Between 2 and 13 December 2019 the member states of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will meet for the 25th World Climate Conference (COP25) in Madrid.
COP25 will take place under the official slogan »Time for Action«. This rallying cry is intended to encourage the member states to step up their climate policy ambitions and increase their nationally defined contributions (NDCs).
Concrete progress is expected as regards climate financing and key aspects of the Paris framework, such as Article 6 (designing international cooperation mechanisms), the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage and the transparency framework. Furthermore, topics such as the nexus of climate policy and sustainable development, the emerging debate on climate justice and the importance of the oceans will be discussed intensively, also against the background of recent scientific findings, as presented in this year’s two IPCC special reports.
The FES will also be in Spain. We are organising a number of events, briefings and network meetings with our partners on climate and energy policy and supporting voices from the Global South.
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Reports on the World Climate Conference 2019
Infographic
Retrospective
Publications on Climate Change and Energy Policy
Kaschowitz, Sabrina
Climate cooperation in a divided world
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Road to Baku COP 29
Dhaka, 2024
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Shevchuk, Sofıia
Feminist foreign policy and climate security
Wien, 2024
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The Conference of the Parties (COP)
The Conference of the Parties (COP) is the annual meeting of the member states of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The UNFCCC was adopted at the UN Environmental and Development Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, and the parties have met to discuss answers and solutions to fighting climate change multilaterally and at international level since 1995. Particularly far-reaching climate policy decisions were taken at the third COP (COP3) in Kyoto, known as the Kyoto Protocol, and at COP21 in Paris, which resulted in the Paris Agreement.