Prelims Perspective: What needs to be learned?

  • What is IPCC, its origin, and its objective?
  • What is UNFCC, Origin, and Major COPS

Mains Perspective: Notes need to be prepared

What needs to be known?

  • Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
    • What is it? : It is a UN body established by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) with its headquarters at Geneva, Switzerland.
    • Objective: To study climate change.
    • Significance: IPCC reports are also key inputs into international climate change negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
  • United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
    • What is it?: It is an international treaty formed in the Rio Earth Summit ( 1992) to coordinate the global response to climate change.
    • Headquarters: Bonn, Germany 
    • Objectives
      • The primary role of UNFCCC is to provide a framework for negotiating specific international treaties, known as “protocols.”
      • UNFCCC itself sets no binding limits but aims to stabilize greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations in the atmosphere at a level preventing dangerous consequences.
    • Funding: Under the Green Environment Fund (GEF)
    • Major COPs and Outcomes
      • COP 3 (1997): Kyoto Protocol
      • COP 16 (2010): Established the Green Climate Fund (GCF).
      • COP 21 (2015): Paries Agreement and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).

Source: The Indian Express

 

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