What does COP stand for?

Byline: Mamta03 On Tuesday, the Boulder City Council directed two city delegates to the United Nations Climate Change Conference of Parties to: support "green" technology; advocate for local government's involvement in national carbon-emission reduction programs; acknowledge the need for alternative approaches to carbon-emission reduction in developing countries; The city also joined the international Mayors for Peace organization with the goals of: eliminating all nuclear weapons from the planet; encouraging nuclear-armed countries not to target cities in the event of war.

After hours of debate, a consensus of sorts was reached on a declaration to be presented to the Conference of Parties at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen, Denmark, this December.

Last November, Canada hosted the First Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (MOP 1) jointly with the Eleventh Session of the Conference of Parties (COP 11) in Montreal, at which time Canada assumed the Presidency of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) for a oneyear term.

Fortunately, fate has placed on us the great role which we are being asked to play at the forthcoming Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen Denmark.

Conference recommendations will be presented in December to the Conference of Parties at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen.

This is a crucial meeting as the negotiators prepare for the 15th session of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP-15 UNFCCC) in Copenhagen in December 2009.

She spoke at the start of a two-week conference of parties to the 50-year-old Antarctic Treaty.

The thirteenth Conference of Parties (COP-13) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held in Bali in December 2007 launched a comprehensive process called Bali Action Plan (BAP) in order to enable the full, effective and sustained implementation of the UNFCCC through long-term cooperative action amongst all Parties to the Convention, now, upto and beyond 2012.