8 December 2009: The UN Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank, IUCN, The Nature Conservancy, Wildlife Conservation and WWF have released a report titled "Natural Solutions: protected areas helping people cope with climate change."
7 December 2009: The UN General Assembly has adopted by consensus a resolution on the protection of the global climate for present and future generations by which it calls on States to work cooperatively towards achieving the ultimate objective of the UNFCCC through the urgent implementation of its provisions.
7 December 2009: In a message to the 13th session of the General Conference of the UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in Vienna, Austria, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed the meeting's focus on how industry can become a vehicle for green growth.
7 December 2009:The UNFCCC Secretariat has published a technical paper (FCCC/TP/2009/2) containing a review of existing literature on potential costs and benefits of adaptation options.
6 December 2009: On the eve of the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and Lord Nicholas Stern, Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, launched an analysis of emission reduction proposals.
7 December 2009: The UN Climate Change Conference opened in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 7 December, and is scheduled to conclude on 18 December 2009. The conference includes the 15th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to the UNFCCC and the fifth session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP/MOP 5).
7 December 2009: The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has set up a webpage for posting relevant CBD documents and statements on linkages between climate change and biodiversity for the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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