United Nations Framework Convention (UNFCCC)
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The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, also known as the UNFCCC, is an international treaty which countries joined in on to cooperatively consider what they could do to limit average global temperature increases and the resulting climate change. Many countries joins such a treaty in 1992 to cope with whatever impacts were inevitable at the time until 1995 when the countries realized the emission reductions provisions in the Convention were not enough. They launched negotiations to strengthen the global response to climate change, and two years later, adopted the Kyoto Protocol which legally binds developed countries to emission reduction targets of 2008 to 2020. As of now, there are 195 Parties to the Convention and 192 Parties to the Kyoto Protocol. The UNFCCC secretariat supports all institutions involved in the international climate change negotiations, particularly the Conference of the Parties (COP), the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties (CMP), and other functions and bodies arising. The UNFCCC hopes to simplify the complex problem of climate change as although environmental in nature, it has consequences for all the different parts of existence on our planet whether it impacts on or is impact by global issues like poverty, economic development, population growth, sustainable development, and research management. Since climate change affects everyone, it is not surprising that the solutions created by the UNFCCC all come from the many disciplines and fields of research and development. At the very heart of the UNFCCC, however, lies the needs to reduce global gas emissions, where in 2010, the governments agreed that emissions need to be reduced so that the global temperature increases are limited to below two degrees Celsius. As of now in the modern-day with the Kyoto Protocol in place, the goal of the UNFCCC is to reduce emissions that result from every country.