UNFCCC 聯合國氣候變化框架公約
(United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change)
What is the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change?
History, Timeline (https://unfccc.int/timeline/)
This infographic provides an easy-to-understand graphic representation of the entire UNFCCC process and focuses of various COPs. (Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit, UK)
Two lesser known but very important entities within the UNFCCC mechanism (in addition to IPCC and COPs):
Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) (https://unfccc.int/process/bodies/subsidiary-bodies/sbi)
Its work has been at the heart of all implementation issues under the Convention, the Kyoto Protocol, and the Paris Agreement. …its agenda is shaped around the key building blocks of implementation of all these treaties and instruments: transparency, mitigation, adaptation, finance, technology and capacity-building, and aims at enhancing the ambition of Parties on all aspects of its agenda.
Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA)
(https://unfccc.int/process/bodies/subsidiary-bodies/sbsta)
The SBSTA is one of two permanent subsidiary bodies to the Convention established by the COP/CMP. It supports the work of the COP, the CMP and the CMA through the provision of timely information and advice on scientific and technological matters as they relate to the Convention, its Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement.
Explainer: Talk the talk – how to decipher U.N. climate jargon
2019.11.25 | Reuters | Nina Chestney
IPCC – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
~ The United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change.
IPCC Special Reports
The IPCC Special Report: Global Warming of 1.5 ºC (a.k.a. SR15)
2018.10.08 | https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/
The Special Event presentation @ COP24, 2018.12.04 ~ Video recording
Analysis / Summary:
In-depth Q&A: The IPCC’s special report on climate change at 1.5C
2018.10.08 | Carbon Brief |
The impacts of climate change at 1.5C, 2C and beyond
Carbon Brief ~ Interactive
The IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land (a.k.a. SRCCL)
2019.08.07 | https://www.ipcc.ch/report/srccl/
(Full title: An IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems)
The Special Event presentation @ COP25, Midrid, 2019.12.04 ~ Video recording
Analysis / Summary:
In-depth Q&A: The IPCC’s special report on climate change and land
2019.08.08 | Carbon Brief
Citizens’ Climate Lobby Canada’s Response to the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land
2019.08.09 | Citizens’ Climate Lobby Canada
Climate change could trigger an international food crisis, UN panel warns
2019.08.08 | CNBC | Emma Newburger
Farming and eating need to change to curb global warming, UN report says
2019.08.08 | CBC News
Plant-based diet can fight climate change – UN
2019.08.08 | BBC | Roger Harrabin
We can’t keep eating as we are – why isn’t the IPCC shouting this from the rooftops?
2019.08.08 | The Guardian | George Monbiot
The IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (a.k.a. SROCC)
2019.09.25 | https://www.ipcc.ch/srocc/home/
The Special Event presentation @ COP25, Madrid, 2019.12.05 ~ video recording
Analysis / Summary:
In-depth Q&A: The IPCC’s special report on the ocean and cryosphere
2019.09.25 | Carbon Brief
‘We’re all in big trouble’: UN climate report says oceans rising, ice melting faster
2019.09.25 | The Associated Press / Global News | Seth Borenstein,
Climate change: Scientists to report on ocean ’emergency’ caused by warming
2019.09.25 | BBC | Matt McGrath,
Flooded cities, vanishing sea life forecast in new UN-backed report
2019.09.25 | Thomas Reurters / CBC
Canadian fishermen feel effects of climate change as world panel sounds alarm bell
2019.09.25 | CBC News | Aly Thomson
IPCC Report: Timely, ambitious and enduring political action needed to halt devastating impacts of climate crisis on oceans and ice systems
2019.09.25 | CAN (Climate Action Network)
Ice-hot news: The IPCC Special Report on the Oceans and the Cryosphere under Climate Change
2019.10.30 | The European Geosciences Union (EGU) blogs | Laura H. Rasmussen, Clara Burgard and Jenny Arthur
IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) Workgroup I – Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis
2021.08.09 | IPCC | https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/#SPM
Summary for Policymakers (for Workgroup I, Science Basis)
*** IPCC WGI Interactive Atlas Interactive Atlas
Key takeaways from the new IPCC report
2021.08.09 | Yale Climate Connections
New IPCC climate report is the clearest guidebook for selecting a future
2021.08.09 | Ars Technica
全球氣候變化報告：十萬火急
2021.08.09 | DW 德國之聲
IPCC report shows ‘possible loss of entire countries within the century’
2021.08.09 | The Guardian
Pacific island nations are already being battered by king tides, catastrophic cyclones and sustained droughts
Climate change: IPCC report is ‘code red for humanity’
2021.08.09 | BBC News
Climate change: Five things we have learned from the IPCC report
2021.08.09 | BBC News
IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) Workgroup II – Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
2022.02.27 | IPCC | https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sixth-assessment-report-working-group-ii/
6 Big Findings from the IPCC 2022 Report on Climate Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
2022.02.27 | World Resources Institute
+++In-depth Q&A: The IPCC’s sixth assessment on how climate change impacts the world
2022.02.28 | Carbon Brief
Five key points in the IPCC report on climate change impacts and adaptation
2022.03.03 | The Conversation
UN climate report urges world to adapt now, or suffer later
2022.02.28 | CBC News
IPCC Report: Cities are hotspots of climate impacts, but also a crucial part of the solution
2022.02.28 | UN Habitat
+++ Degrowth in the IPCC AR6 WGII
2022.03.05 | Timothee Parrique – ecological economist (Author of THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DEGROWTH)
IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) Workgroup III – Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change
2022.04.04 | IPCC | https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg3/
6 things to know about the IPCC climate solutions science report
2022.04.04 | Greenpeace Canada
It’s over for fossil fuels: IPCC spells out what’s needed to avert climate disaster
2022.04.04 | The Guardian
Analysis: The third part of the panel’s report makes clear a century of rising emissions must end before 2025
// The language of the third part of the IPCC’s report is less dramatic than the first two, which placed “unequivocal” blame on us for putting a “livable future” in grave peril. Rather than plainly stating the scale of the climate emergency, the new assessment spells out what needs to be done. Its text was therefore haggled over furiously by those states with much to lose.
But the conclusion is no less stark: a century of rising emissions must end before 2025 to keep global heating under 1.5C, beyond which severe impacts will increase further, hurting billions of people.
“It’s now or never, if we want to limit global warming to 1.5C,” said Prof Jim Skea, a co-chair of the report. “Without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors, it will be impossible.” //
+++In-depth Q&A: The IPCC’s sixth assessment on how to tackle climate change
2022.04.05 | Carbon Brief
The Latest IPCC Report: What is it and why does it matter?
2022.04.04 | The Nature Conservancy
‘It’s now or never’: UN climate report’s 4 urgent takeaways
2022.04.04 | National Geographic
6 Takeaways from the 2022 IPCC Climate Change Mitigation Report
2022.04.04 | World Resource Institute
5 takeaways from the latest IPCC report
2022.04.04 | World Economic Forum
Factbox: Key takeaways from the IPCC report on climate change mitigation
2022.04.04 | Reuters
Five Takeaways on International Climate Cooperation from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report on Mitigation
2022.04.07 | NDC Aspects | Harro van Asselt
The 1.5-Degree Goal Is All But Dead
2022.04.06 | The Atlantic
Debunking Demand (IPCC Mitigation Report, Part 1)
2022.04.05 | Drilled News |
IPCC Mitigation Report 2022 Analysis—Part One: Debunking Demand, an Ode to Chapter Five.
IPCC Sixth Assessment (AR6) Synthesis Report: Climate Change 2023
2023.03.20 | IPCC | https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/
Official:
Summary for Policymakers / Longer Report / Figures
Analysis:
Behind the scene negotiation: an account of who lobbied for what (original thread on Twitter)
2023.03.22 | Ajit Niranjan @NiranjanAjit
Q&A: IPCC wraps up its most in-depth assessment of climate change
2023.03.23 | Carbon Brief
10 Big Findings from the 2023 IPCC Report on Climate Change
2023.03.20 | WRI
Summary graphics (Twitter thread): https://twitter.com/AniDasguptaWRI/status/1638580766350114816?s=20
The Latest IPCC Report: What is it and why does it matter?
2023.03.20 | The Nature Conservancy
UN scientists warn drastic steps needed to prevent climate change catastrophe
2023.03.20 | PBS
The big takeaways from the IPCC Synthesis Report released today
2023.03.20 | Katharine Hayhoe (twitter thread)
Scientists deliver ‘final warning’ on climate crisis: act now or it’s too late
2023.03.20 | The Guardian
IPCC report says only swift and drastic action can avert irrevocable damage to world
IPCC’s synthesis report is a ‘practical guide to defusing the climate time bomb’, says Guterres
2023.03.20 | Le Monde
World is on brink of catastrophic warming, U.N. climate change report says
2023.03.20 | Washington Post
What do IPCC reports say about the #Health impacts of climate change? (Twitter feed with video)
2023.03.22 | Global Climate and Health Alliance @GCHAlliance
The Kyoto Protocol
(https://unfccc.int/kyoto_protocol)
UNFCCC Warsaw International Mechanism (WIM) for Loss and Damage associated with Climate Change Impacts (2013)
Overall | UNFCCC
Approaches to address loss and damage associated with climate change impacts in developing countries |UNFCCC (Simplified Infographic)
The Paris Agreement
Key Aspects of the Paris Agreement
Explainer
Paris Climate Agreement: Everything You Need to Know
2018.12.12 | NRDC | Melissa Denchak
5 Things to Know about the Paris Climate Agreement
2016.01.04 | CRCNA~Do Justice | Kyle Meyaard-Schaap
The Paris Agreement rulebook explained
2018.12.05 | Climate Home News | Natalie Sauer
Navigating the Paris Agreement Rulebook | World Resources Institute
Why Does the Paris Climate Agreement Need a Rulebook? 7 Questions and Answers
2019.06.13 | World Resources Institute | Nathan Cogswell and Yamide Dagnet
A Brief Guide to the Paris Agreement and “Rulebook”
2019.06 | Center for Climate and Energy Solutions | Jennifer Huang
NDC
Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC)
~ The GHG emission reduction pledges by nations, as mandated by the Paris Agreement
Paris tracker: Who pledged what for 2015 UN climate pact?
2016.02.04 Updated | Climate Home News
NDCs and current status | Climate Action Tracker | last update 2020.02
2020 NDC Tracker | Climate Watch
Initial NDC Synthesis Report
New Release: Greater Climate Ambition Urged as Initial NDC Synthesis Report Is Published
2021.02.26 | UNFCCC
Green Climate Fund: Tracking countries’ contributions:
https://www.greenclimate.fund/how…/resource-mobilization
Analysis
Most countries’ climate plans ‘totally inadequate’ – experts
2019.11.05 | The Guardian | Damian Carrington
Most countries aren’t hitting 2030 climate goals, and everyone will pay the price
2019.11.05 | National Geographic | Stephen Leahy |
~ “Untold human suffering” is in our future as nations miss their Paris Agreement targets by a long shot.
Actual report behind the above coverage: The Truth Behind the Paris Agreement Climate Pledges
The Truth Behind the Climate Pledges
2019.11 | Universal Ecological Fund
~ Useful charts and info on the pledges by nations
Other Related Reports from UN Agencies
World Meteorological Organisation
WMO Greenhouse Gas Bulletin
2019.11.25
Press Release
~ Greenhouse gas concentrations in atmosphere reach yet another high
News report
Climate-heating greenhouse gases hit new high, UN reports
~ Head of World Meteorological Organization says ‘no sign of a slowdown, let alone a decline’
2019.11.25 | The Guardian | Damian Carrington
The State of the Global Climate 2020
2021.04.20
Youtube (https://youtu.be/pmUCGcBy8tM)
UN Environment Programme
Emissions Gap Report 2019
2019.11.26
News report:
Earth set to warm 3.2 C by 2100 unless efforts to cut emissions are tripled, new UN report finds
2019.11.26 | CBC News | Nicole Mortillaro
~ One expert calls findings of 3.2 C warming ‘terrifying’
‘Catastrophic’: Canada set to miss 2030 emissions target by 15%, UN report says
2019.11.26 | Global News | Hannah Jackson
UN calls for push to cut greenhouse gas levels to avoid climate chaos
2019.11.26 | The Guardian | Fiona Harvey
~ Global emissions must fall by 7.6% a year for next decade to avoid crisis, report says
Emissions Gap Report 2020
2020.12.09
Official Press release
News report:
The World Is Headed for 3 Degrees of Warming This Century, U.N. Report Warns—But a Green Pandemic Recovery Could Offer Hope
2020.12.09 | Time Magazine | ARYN BAKER
- Dense U.N. reports may not make onto anyone’s must read list for the holidays, so think of the United Nations Environment Program’s 2020 Emissions Gap survey as a warning letter from Santa, on behalf of the planet.
- The report, released today, is published at the end of every year and measures national commitments to reduce emissions against what science says is needed to limit global warming to an increase of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, the goal set out by the 2015 Paris Agreement. This year, we are still firmly on the naughty list, as we have been for the past five years: Despite a brief dip in carbon dioxide emissions caused by the pandemic, the world is still heading for a temperature rise of 3.2°C this century. …”
Adaptation Gap Report 2020
2021.01.14
Climate Change and Biodiversity Conservation
**IPBES-IPCC Co-Sponsored Workshop Report on Biodiversity and Climate Change
2021.06.10 | IPBES-IPCC
- The report in pdf, and the launching seminar and short presentation on Youtube,
IPBES/IPCC: Tackling the biodiversity and climate crises together, and their combined social impacts
2021.06.10 | EurekAlert
This news release contains a fair summary of the above report
An Earthkeeper's Notebook 