Climate Change Programs and Policies

Government and international organization initiatives to address climate change.

International treaty to address climate change through global cooperation.

International agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Visual tool used to compare similarities and differences between two concepts or groups.

Energy sources such as solar and wind power that do not produce greenhouse gases.

The 26th Conference of the Parties, a major UN climate change conference.

Long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns.

Maurice Frederick Strong, a Canadian industrialist and public servant.

June 5, 1972

Nairobi, Kenya

Meetings to discuss and address climate change.

Banned military environmental modification like cloud seeding, avoiding negative and long-term environmental impacts.

First World climate conference in Geneva, Switzerland.

Scientists predicted increasing global temperatures and greater impact of greenhouse gases by 2000.

An international agreement to phase out ozone-depleting substances, globally ratified by all countries.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a scientific body assessing the science related to climate change.

International conference to balance global economic development with environmental protection held in Rio de Janeiro.

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change entered into force, aiming for preventing dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.

International agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, adopted at COP3.

1985 Conference highlighting climate change's severity and implications.

The 1988 Toronto conference brought together science and policies to address atmospheric changes.

1990 report detailing global warming predictions and future scenarios based on available scientific work.

International agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from industrialized nations.

Gases that trap heat in the atmosphere, contributing to global warming.

International treaty aiming for global cooperation on climate change, including reduction in greenhouse gases.

2021 United Nations climate change conference focused on achieving global net-zero emissions by mid-century.

Amendments to the Kyoto Protocol addressing the impacts of global warming.

Achieving a balance where no more greenhouse gases enter the atmosphere than are removed.

Maintaining global temperature increase below 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.