CMA is the short form for the group of the countries who have signed and ratified the Paris Agreement. The full name of this governing body is “Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement”. Meetings of this group are numbered and called “CMA1” etc. The first meeting of the …
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COP – Conference of the Parties
COP stands for Conference of the Parties. It is the name of the governing body of the UN Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC). It is also the name of the annual meetings of the countries who are parties to the convention. They usually take place in late November/early December and they are numbered. That means COP22 is …
COP22
COP22 was a UN conference on climate change held in Marrakesh (Morocco) 7-18 November 2016. All countries who have signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meet annually to negotiate further action. In 2015 COP21 took place in Paris, where the Paris Agreement was decided. In 2017 COP23 will take place in Bonn, Germany, …