UNFCCC - United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Over a decade ago, most countries joined an international treaty -- the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) -- to begin to consider what can be done to reduce global warming and to cope with whatever temperature increases are inevitable. Recently, a number of nations have approved an addition to the treaty: the Kyoto Protocol, which has more powerful (and legally binding) measures. The UNFCCC secretariat supports all institutions involved in the climate change process, particularly the COP, the subsidiary bodies and their Bureau.
This section contains numerous resources -- for beginners or experts -- such as introductory and in-depth publications, the official UNFCCC and Kyoto Protocol texts and a search engine to the UNFCCC library.

UN Publication

The UN have published the UN Chronicle magazine, which reach the volume XLIV. This volume (Number 2, 2007) have special issue on climate change, “Green Our World!”. It offers a snapshot of where the international community currently stands with regard to climate change. The special issue of the UN chronicle presents a range of perspectives in the form of articles and essays, written by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the Prime Ministers of New Zealand, Jamaica and Tuvalu, Ministers and high UN Officials.