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COP 12 - Nairobi

The 2006 United Nations Climate Change Conference


From November 6 to 17, 2006, the world’s governments met in Nairobi, Kenya for the annual United Nations climate change conference. The intent of the conference is to assess progress and undertake measures aimed at reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution that causes climate change.

The formal name of the conference is the Twelfth Session of the Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Convention (COP-12) and it was held concurrently with the Second meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP/MOP 2 - the meeting of countries, including Canada, that have ratified the Kyoto Protocol).

CAN Canada has prepared a backgrounder on COP-12 which provides more information.

Climate Conference News

• News Release - November 13, 2006
  Government of Canada next to bottom of the class in fighting climate change
  
  
• News Release - November 9, 2006
  Nairobi Conference on Climate Change: Canada’s position hypocritical, Canadian environmental groups say
  
  
• Canada wins first place "Fossil of the Day" award (again)
  
  
• Read ECO, the NGO newsletter published on site at COP-12 in Nairobi
  
  
• U.N. COP-12 Webcasts

Resources

• CAN Canada COP-12 backgrounder
  
  
• A Planetary Citizen’s Guide to the Global Climate Negotiations
  Sierra Club of Canada's updated guide to COP-12
  
  
• CAN International web site
  
  
• Legal Opinion - October 30, 2006
  on whether Canada is currently in violation of, or is likely to violate, its obligations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and/or the Kyoto Protocol
  
  
• October 31, 2006 letter
  on the duties of the Minister of the Environment to act under Section 166 of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act 1999 (FoE Canada and FoE International)
  
  
• October 31, 2006 letter to the UNFCCC Secretariat
  regarding Canadian non-compliance with the Kyoto Protocol
  
  
• CAN International Article 9 position paper
  Views regarding UNFCC Article 9 of the Kyoto Protocol
  
  
• Who’s meeting their Kyoto targets?
  Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Environment Minister Rona Ambrose claim that none or few countries that signed on to the Kyoto Protocol will meet their emission reduction targets. However, these claims are largely false.
  
  
• Organization of UN climate change bodies - Chart
  
  
• UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP-12 site
  
  
• CAN Canada COP-11 (Montreal, 2005) pages