UNFCCC Negotiations & Agriculture

Why was the UNFCCC created?

Mission: “Preventing “dangerous” human interference with the climate system is the ultimate aim of the UNFCCC”

• Scientists recognized that there was a problem
• UNFCCC provides place for world leaders to gather to find shared solutions to shared problems
• Put the onus on developed countries to lead the way
• Direct funds to climate change mitigation and adaptation activities
• Keep tabs on global emissions and climate impacts and what's being done about it
• Chart the formal consideration of adaptation to climate chang