COP stand For: Conference of the Parties
What is COP ?
COP is the name given to the United Nations Climate Change Conferences. The goal of these conferences is to review progress made by members of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to limit climate change. There are now 197 Parties to the Convention and 192 Parties the: Kyoto Protocol.
COP Summits & Conferences
- First COP meeting was held in March 1995 in: Berlin Germany
- 2nd COP meeting was held in July 1996 in: Geneva, Switzerland
- 3rd COP meeting was held in December 1997 in: Kyoto, Japan
- COP-25 meeting was held in December 2019 in: Madrid, Spain
- COP-26 meeting was held in 31 oct to 13 Nov 2021 in: Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- COP-27 meeting was held in November 2022 in: Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt
- Who was appointed President for COP-27: Sameh Shoukry
- Who vas appointed V-President for COP-27: Shehbaz Sharif
- COP-28 meeting Held from 30 November to 12 December 2023 in: Dubai, UAE
- Who was appointed President for COP-28: Sultan Ahmed Al-Jaber
- The theme of the COP-28 is: Relief, Recovery and Peace
- Main Purpose of COP is impalement to: Paris Agreement (2016) & Kyoto Protocol (199).
Earth Summits & Environment Summits
- UN Conference on Human Environment (UNCHS)Held in 1972 in: Stockholm
- The Earth Summit was held in May 1982 in: Nairobi, Kenya
- The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) or Earth Summit 1992 held in: Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
- The World Summit on Sustainable Development, Earth Summit 2002 or Rio+10, held in: Johannesburg (South Africa)
- In 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference or Copenhagen Summit held in: Copenhagen (Denmark).
- The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) or Rio+20 held in 2012 in: Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
- The 7th Digital Earth Summit 2018,DES-2018,on Digital Earth for Sustainable Development in Africa was to be held in: El Jadida (Morocco).
