Publications

The following links provide access to various United Nations documents, reports, conventions and records on climate change:

 

Reports

 

IPCC 4th Assessment - All the details on the Science of Climate Change

Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX)

Acting on Climate Change: The UN System Delivering as One

UNEP Development Report: Fighting Climate Change

Near-term Climate Protection and Clean Air Benefits: Actions for Controlling Short-Lived Climate Forcers - A UNEP Synthesis Report

Bridging the Emissions Gap: A UNEP Synthesis Report

UNFCCC National Reports

Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation -- Summary for Policymakers

Moving Towards a Climate Neutral UN

UNEP's Green Economy Report

Cities and Climate Change: Global Report on Human Settlements 2011

Energy for a Sustainable Future -- The Secretary-General's Advisory Group on Energy and Climate Change (AGECC): Summary Report and Recommendations (28 April 2010)

Risk and Poverty in a Changing Climate: 2009 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction

World Economic and Social Survey 2009: Promoting Development, Saving the Planet

 

Conventions and Declarations

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

The Cancun Agreements

The Kyoto Protocol

The Bali Action Plan

The Convention on Biological Diversity

Madrid Conference Statement and Action Plan

Ministerial declaration of the 2007 high-level segment of ECOSOC (2007) [PDF, 61KB]

Multilateral Environment Agreements

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification

United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development

 

Training

UN CC Learn

 

UN Documents

General Assembly

GA Documents

GA Resolutions

Overview of United Nations activities in relation to climate change - Report of the Secretary-General

Reports of the Secretary-General to the GA

 

Economic and Social Council

ECOSOC Documents

ECOSOC Resolutions

Reports of the Secretary-General to the ECOSOC