CANCUN CONFERENCE | UNFCCC

 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

-          To reduce carbon emissions and build a system which made all countries accountable to each other for those reductions

Highlights

-          To commit to a maximum temperature, rise of 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to consider lowering that to 1.5 degrees in the near future

-          To make fully operational by 2012 a technology mechanism to boost the innovation, development and spread of new climate friendly technologies

-          To establish a ‘Green Climate Fund’ to provide financing to projects, programs, policies, and other activities in developing countries via thematic funding windows.

-          The  Cancun Adaptation Framework included setting up an Adaptation Committee to promote the implementation of stronger cohesive action on adaptation.

Read more details about this conference by clicking the link: https://unfccc.int/process/conferences/the-big-picture/milestones/the-cancun-agreements