A copy of this conference report, as well as the First World Climate Conference report and other early conference reports can be seen on display at the archival exhibition in Bonn.
The first section of the UNFCCC Story gallery tells the story of the history of the climate change negotiation process. The story starts with the First World Climate Conference sponsored by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), held in February 1979, which was the first major international scientific gathering to discuss human-induced climate change. The exhibit uses documents, photographs and artifacts to explain the progress made from these early climate conferences.
This button and other memorabilia from early climate conferences is on display in the archival exhibition in Bonn.
There are artifacts from The Toronto Conference on “Our Changing Atmosphere: Implications for Global Security”, the IPCC, The Second World Climate Conference as well as background information on interventions and action taken by the UN General Assembly.
The section concludes with Resolution 45/212, unanimously adopted on 21 December 1990 by the UN General Assembly, establishing an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee with the task of preparing “an effective framework convention on climate change, containing appropriate commitments”. The climate change negotiations were underway.
Climate Change Treaties
This section also includes information related to the three climate change treaties that guide the work of the UN Climate Change secretariat. Here you can learn about the Framework Convention on Climate Change, the world's first climate change treaty, they Kyoto Protocol, which called for legally binding, and specific emission targets, and the Paris Agreement, which raises the level of ambition for climate cooperation, aiming for countries to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and pursue efforts to keep to a 1.5 degree Celsius ceiling.
