UNFCCC

 The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an international treaty that aims to limit dangerous human interference with the climate system: 

Purpose: The UNFCCC's goal is to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere to prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system. 

History: The UNFCCC was adopted in 1992 and entered into force in 1994. It's the parent treaty of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and the 2015 Paris Agreement. 

Parties: The UNFCCC has 198 parties. 

Meetings: Countries that are parties to the UNFCCC meet annually at the Conference of the Parties (COP) to: 

Measure progress 

Negotiate multilateral responses to climate change 

Review national communications and emission inventories 

Assess the effects of the measures taken by parties 

Next COP: COP29 will be held in Baku, Azerbaijan in November 2024. 

Secretariat: The UNFCCC secretariat is the United Nations entity that supports the global response to climate change. The secretariat is located at the UN Campus in Bonn, Germany. 

Finance portal: The UNFCCC's finance portal includes information on: 

Financial resources provided by contributing countries 

Resources provided by developed countries 

Climate finance flows of the GEF 

Projects and programs of the Adaptation Fund