How is the UNFCCC's climate change mitigation governed?

What is the UNFCCC? Test your knowledge about the treaties and governance addressing climate change.

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How is climate defined in an international context?

As the property of individual nations to use as they please

As the property of the United Nations to control through geoengingeering

As a good that can be traded on a stock market, meaning that the greenhouse gases can be put to the best use by the highest bidder

As a common good, which means that one country's actions affect other countries

What is the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change?

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A UN agency working against climate change

An international parliament of climate change policymakers

An international environmental treaty

An organisation of climate change scientists supported by the UN

What is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change?

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An organisation that prescribes policy decisions to the UN

A club for the signatory countries of the Paris Agreement

An international environmental protection agency

An international body for assessing the science and policy of climate change

What is a Conference of the Parties?

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A conference between countries and organisations that have signed a convention where they review how the treaty has been implemented and take new decisions

A conference for deciding who is going to arrange the party happening after the climate conference

A special session of the UN General Assembly regarding climate change

A yearly gathering of heads of states arranged by the UNFCCC where they are briefed about recent scientific discoveries regarding climate change

What is the objective of the UNFCCC?

To stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system

To change the course of climate change in a better direction than today through geoengineering

To find out the reasons for why climate change is happening

To make the emission of greenhouse gases illegal

Who is the current Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC?

Yvo de Boer

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Patricia Espinosa Cantellano

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Christiana Figueres Olsen

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Kofi Annan