UNRIC Library Backgrounder: Climate Change

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ActNow Climate Campaign
https://www.un.org/en/actnow/

UN Entities & Related Bodies

• United Nations & Climate Change: https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/
• United Nations Climate Change (UNFCCC):  http://unfccc.int/
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): http://www.ipcc.ch/

UN Events

• COP29 – UN Climate Change Conference – Baku, 11-22 November 2024:
  https://unfccc.int/cop29, https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/cop29
  • COP29: Push for agreement on a new climate finance deal ‘right from the start’
    (UN News, 11 November 2024): https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/11/1156776

• • FAO at COP29: https://www.fao.org/climate-change/fao-at-cop29
  • IAEA at COP29: https://www.iaea.org/topics/climate-change/the-iaea-and-cop/cop29
  • ICAO: https://www.icao.int/environmental-protection/Pages/COP29.aspx
  • IFAD at COP29: https://www.ifad.org/en/w/events/ifad-at-cop29
  • ILO at COP29: https://www.ilo.org/ilo-cop29
  • IMF at COP29: https://www.imf.org/en/Topics/climate-change/COP29
  • IMO at COP29: https://www.imo.org/en/OurWork/Environment/Pages/IMO-at-COP-29-.aspx
  • IOM
    • Climate Migration at COP29: Putting People at the Center of the Climate Change Discussion: https://www.iom.int/cop29-putting-people-center-climate-change-discussion
    • COP29 Youth Delegates on Climate Migration: https://www.iom.int/cop29-youth-delegates-climate-migration
    • Human Mobility at COP29: https://environmentalmigration.iom.int/human-mobility-cop-29i
  • ITU – Green Digital Action @COP29: https://www.itu.int/initiatives/green-digital-action/programme/
  • OCHA at COP29: https://www.unocha.org/climate-change/cop-29
  • Humanitarian Hub @COP29: https://www.unocha.org/humanitarian-hub-cop29
  • UN-Habitat at COP29: https://unhabitat.org/cop29
  • UNCTAD: https://tinyurl.com/5n7b33w9
  • UNDP – Climate action for the future – COP29: https://www.undp.org/eurasia/climateactionforthefuture
  • UNDRR’s Call to Action at COP29: https://www.undrr.org/climate-action-and-disaster-risk-reduction/undrr-cop29
  • ECA at the 29th Conference of Parties to the UNFCCC (COP29): https://www.uneca.org/eca-events/COP29
  • UNECE @ COP29: https://unece.org/cop29
  • UNEP at the COP29: https://www.unep.org/unep-climate-cop29
  • UNESCAP: https://www.unescap.org/events
  • UNESCO – Climate change education at COP29: https://www.unesco.org/en/climate-change/education/cop29
  • UNFPA at COP29: https://eeca.unfpa.org/en/news/unfpa-cop29
  • UNICEF Events at COP29: https://www.unicef.org/azerbaijan/stories/unicef-events-cop29
  • UNIDO@COP29: https://www.unido.org/events/unidocop29
  • UNODC at the COP29: https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/climateCOP/index29.html
  • UNU at COP29: https://unu.edu/cop29
  • UNWTO – UN Climate Change COP29 Thematic Day on Tourism, 20 November: https://www.unwto.org/events/un-climate-change-cop29-thematic-day-on-tourism
  • WFP at COP29: Unite to protect vulnerable communities on the frontlines of climate change: https://www.wfp.org/news/wfp-cop29-unite-protect-vulnerable-communities-frontlines-climate-change
  • WIPO to release new edition of the “Green Technology Book” at COP29 on November 19, 2024, from 10.15-11.45h CET (13.15-14.45h Azerbaijan Time): https://www3.wipo.int/wipogreen/en/news/2024/news_0017.html
  • WMO at COP29: https://wmo.int/site/wmo-cop29
  • WTO Secretariat at Climate Change COP29: https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/envir_e/cop29_e/wto_cop29_e.htm
  • The World Bank Group at COP29: https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/the-world-bank-group-at-cop29

• Security Council Meeting, 13 February 2024: Maintenance of international peace and security – The impact of climate change and food insecurity: https://research.un.org/en/docs/sc/quick/meetings/2024
• Climate Ambition Summit, 20 September 2023, United Nations Headquarters, New York: https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/climate-ambition-summit
• General Assembly, Seventy-seventh Session, 64th & 65th Meetings, 29 March 2023
  General Assembly adopts resolution requesting International Court of Justice provide advisory opinion on states’ obligations concerning climate change (GA/12497): https://press.un.org/en/2023/ga12497.doc.htm
  • A/RES/77/276: https://www.un.org/en/ga/77/resolutions.shtml
• Security Council Meeting, 14 February 2023: Threats to international peace and security – Sea-level rise: implications for international peace and security: https://research.un.org/en/docs/sc/quick/meetings/2023
• Security Council Meeting, 9 December 2021: Maintenance of international
  peace and security: security in the context of terrorism and climate change: https://research.un.org/en/docs/sc/quick/meetings/2021
• High-level thematic debate on “Delivering climate action: for people, planet and prosperity”, 26 October 2021: https://www.un.org/pga/76/event/deliver_climate_action/, https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1e/k1enkaxyxk, https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/10/1104052
• Security Council Meeting, 23 September 2021: Maintenance of international peace and security – Climate and security: https://research.un.org/en/docs/sc/quick/meetings/2021
• Climate Summit, 23 September 2019: https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/2019-climate-action-summit
  • Actions not words: what was promised at the UN’s landmark climate summit? (23 September 2019): https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/09/1047112
• High Level Meeting on Climate and Sustainable Development for All, 29 March 2019: https://www.un.org/pga/73/event/climate-and-sustainable-development-for-all/
• Security Council Meeting, 25 January 2019: Maintenance of international peace and security – Addressing the impacts of climate-related disasters on international peace and security: http://research.un.org/en/docs/sc/quick/meetings/2019
• Security Council Meeting, 11 July 2018: Maintenance of international peace and security – Understanding and addressing climate-related security risks: http://research.un.org/en/docs/sc/quick/meetings/2018
• Intersessional panel discussion on human rights, climate change, migrants and persons displaced across international borders, 6 October 2017: https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/Pages/PanelClimateMigrants.aspx
• High-Level SDG Event “Climate Change and the Sustainable Development Agenda”, 23 March 2017: https://bit.ly/2nqVQES
• Expert Meeting on Climate Change and Human Rights, 6-7 October 2016: https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/HRAndClimateChange/Pages/ClimateChange.aspx
• Paris Agreement Signing Ceremony – 22 April 2016: http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/parisagreement22april/
• General Assembly High-Level Event on Climate Change (New York, 29 June 2015):
  http://www.un.org/pga/290615_hle-climate-change/
• Climate Summit – September 2014: https://www.un.org/press/en/highlights/climatesummit2014
• General Assembly Thematic Debate Sustainable Development and Climate Change: Practical Solutions in the Energy Water Nexus, 16 May 2013: https://www.un.org/en/ga/president/67/pdf/calendar/20130516-energywater.pdf
• Security Council Meeting, 20 July 2011: Maintenance of international peace and security – Impact of climate change: http://research.un.org/en/docs/sc/quick/meetings/2011

UN Treaties, Declarations and selected UN documents

• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/conveng.pdf
• Kyoto Protocol: https://unfccc.int/process/the-kyoto-protocol
• Bali Road Map: https://unfccc.int/process/conferences/pastconferences/bali-climate-change-conference-december-2007/statements-and-resources/Bali-Road-Map-Documents
• Cancun Agreements: https://unfccc.int/process/conferences/the-big-picture/milestones/the-cancun-agreements
• Durban Outcomes: https://unfccc.int/process/conferences/the-big-picture/milestones/outcomes-of-the-durban-conference
• Doha Climate Gateway: https://unfccc.int/process/conferences/the-big-picture/milestones/the-doha-climate-gateway
• Warsaw Outcomes: https://unfccc.int/process/conferences/the-big-picture/milestones/outcomes-of-the-warsaw-conference
• Lima Call for Climate Action: http://undocs.org/FCCC/CP/2014/10/Add.1
• Paris Agreement: https://unfccc.int/process/the-paris-agreement/what-is-the-paris-agreement
• Marrakech Action Proclamation for Our Climate and Sustainable Development: http://unfccc.int/files/meetings/marrakech_nov_2016/application/pdf/marrakech_action_proclamation.pdf
• Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action: http://unfccc.int/files/paris_agreement/application/pdf/marrakech_partnership_for_global_climate_action.pdf
• Key achievements from COP23: https://cop23.com.fj/key-achievements-cop23/
• Katowice Climate Package: https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement/katowice-climate-package
• The Glasgow Climate Pact – Key Outcomes from COP26: https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement/the-glasgow-climate-pact-key-outcomes-from-cop26
• Five Key Takeaways from COP27: https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/conferences/sharm-el-sheikh-climate-change-conference-november-2022/five-key-takeaways-from-cop27
• Five Key Takeaways from COP27: https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/conferences/sharm-el-sheikh-climate-change-conference-november-2022/five-key-takeaways-from-cop27
• UN documents on “climate change” – click here

Selected Statements and Speeches by UN Officials

• Mandatory rules for all, businesses adopting transition plans key to achieving net-zero emissions by mid-century, Secretary-General tells Stocktake of Integrity Matters Event (SG/SM/22456, 14 November 2024): https://press.un.org/en/2024/sgsm22456.doc.htm
• Secretary-General declares ‘we must move much faster’, urging Leaders’ Meeting at Baku Climate Conference to keep pushing for high ambition outcome (SG/SM/22455, 13 November 2024): https://press.un.org/en/2024/sgsm22455.doc.htm
• Action for justice and equity must surge alongside demand for minerals critical to energy transition, Secretary-General tells meeting at Baku Climate Conference (SG/SM/22454, 13 November 2024): https://press.un.org/en/2024/sgsm22454.doc.htm
• Secretary-General urges leaders of Small Island Developing States, at Climate Summit, to use ‘moral authority’ and demand action, leadership, justice (SG/SM/22453, 13 November 2024): https://press.un.org/en/2024/sgsm22453.doc.htm
• Early warning systems, protection from extreme heat ‘are not luxuries’, Secretary-General tells event at Baku Climate Change Conference (SG/SM/22452, 13 November 2024): https://press.un.org/en/2024/sgsm22452.doc.htm
• ‘Let’s see Africa where it belongs: At the forefront of the renewables revolution’, says Secretary-General, at Baku Climate Change Conference (SG/SM/22449, 12 November 2024): https://press.un.org/en/2024/sgsm22449.doc.htm
• ‘In an era of climate extremes, loss and damage finance is a must’, Secretary-General tells Baku Launch Event (SG/SM/22448, 12 November 2024): https://press.un.org/en/2024/sgsm22448.doc.htm
• Eighty per cent of world’s population want more climate action, Secretary-General tells Baku Summit Opening Ceremony, stressing ‘they must be heard, not silenced’ (SG/SM/22447, 12 November 2024): https://press.un.org/en/2024/sgsm22447.doc.htm
• Humanity paying price for torching planet, Secretary-General says at UN Environment Programme Adaptation Gap Report Launch, urging action to address climate calamity (SG/SM/22443, 7 November 2024): https://press.un.org/en/2024/sgsm22443.doc.htm
• ‘I am on your side’, Secretary-General tells Youth Climate Change Conference, stressing ‘let’s push leaders to deliver’ on climate action, justice (7 November 2024, SG/SM/22444): https://press.un.org/en/2024/sgsm22444.doc.htm
• ‘Your voices are essential’ to drive climate action, justice, Secretary-General tells Religious Leaders’ Summit, urging fast, fair transition to durable, renewable future (SG/SM/22440, 5 November 2024): https://press.un.org/en/2024/sgsm22440.doc.htm
• ‘We’re out of time’, Secretary-General declares at Launch of Environment Programme Emissions Gap Report, calling for government to take action at Climate Conference (SG/SM/22422, 24 October 2024): https://press.un.org/en/2024/sgsm22422.doc.htm
• Secretary-General, at Pacific Island Forum Opening Ceremony, says greater financial, technological support for region crucial to protect climate, save world (SG/SM/22342, 26 August 2024): https://press.un.org/en/2024/sgsm22342.doc.htm
• Following three hottest days on record, Secretary-General launches Global Action Call to care for most vulnerable, protect workers, boost resilience using data, science (SG/SM/22319, 25 July 2024): https://press.un.org/en/2024/sgsm22319.doc.htm
• 5°C global temperature rise still possible, but not for long, Secretary-General warns Climate Promise 2025 Launch, urging clear, ambitious emission reduction targets (SG/SM/22203, 23 April 2024): https://press.un.org/en/2024/sgsm22203.doc.htm
• 10 European cities on track to be climate-neutral by 2030, Secretary-General tells Regional Summit, stressing local leaders need seat at national policymaking table (SG/SM/22164, 18 March 2024): https://press.un.org/en/2024/sgsm22164.doc.htm
• We must unite at front line of climate action, build better future together, says Secretary-General, in Message for World Meteorological Day (SG/SM/22161, 15 March 2024): https://press.un.org/en/2024/sgsm22161.doc.htm
• Solidarity critical to addressing climate emergency threatening very existence of Small Island States, Secretary-General tells Latin American, Caribbean Summit (SG/SM/22145, 1 March 2024): https://press.un.org/en/2024/sgsm22145.doc.htm
• As mounting climate chaos, food crisis undermine international peace, Secretary-General tells Security Council it must ‘act now’ to resolve conflicts, protect people (SG/SM/22133, 13 February 2024): https://press.un.org/en/2024/sgsm22133.doc.htm
• Fossil fuel industry’s promises fall short, Secretary-General tells ‘Early Warnings for All’ Presidency Event, urging clarity on reaching net-zero emissions by 2050 (SG/SM/22069, 3 December 2023): https://press.un.org/en/2023/sgsm22069.doc.htm
• Warning world cannot afford delays, greenwashing, Secretary-General urges concrete action to reach net-zero emissions, at round table with Non-State Actors (SG/SM/22070, 3 December 2023): https://press.un.org/en/2023/sgsm22070.doc.htm
• ‘Mountains are issuing a distress call’, Secretary-General tells Dubai Event, stressing upcoming Climate Change Conference must respond with rescue plan (SG/SM/22065, 2 December 2023): https://press.un.org/en/2023/sgsm22065.doc.htm
• ‘No more delays, no more foot-dragging, no more greenwashing’, Secretary-General stresses, in Remarks to Global Climate Action Summit (SG/SM/22068, 2 December 2023): https://press.un.org/en/2023/sgsm22068.doc.htm
• Develop comprehensive net-zero transition plans, demand seat at policymaking table of national governments, Secretary-General urges at Local Climate Action Summit (SG/SM/22061, 1 December 2023): https://press.un.org/en/2023/sgsm22061.doc.htm
• Drastic emissions cuts, transition to renewable energy crucial as ‘humanity’s fate hangs in the balance’, Secretary-General Tells World Climate Action Summit (SG/SM/22060, 1 December 2023): https://press.un.org/en/2023/sgsm22060.doc.htm
• Amid climate collapse, leaders must act further, faster to limit global temperature rise, Secretary-General says at World Meteorological Organization Report Launch (SG/SM/22058, 30 November 2023): https://press.un.org/en/environmental-issues-and-sustainable-development
• Melting of Antarctica Sea Ice endangers planet, lives worldwide, Secretary-General warns, stressing leaders must act, break cycle in upcoming Climate Conference (SG/SM/22051, 27 November 2023): https://press.un.org/en/2023/sgsm22051.doc.htm
• ‘Young people are the climate fighters our world needs’, Secretary-General tells Conference, urging all to never give up, fight for future they deserve (SG/SM/22049, 26 November 2023): https://press.un.org/en/2023/sgsm22049.doc.htm
• Urging leaders to tear out ‘Poisoned root of climate crisis — fossil fuels’, Secretary-General warns environment report shows dangerous emissions gap (SG/SM/22039, 20 November 2023): https://press.un.org/en/2023/sgsm22039.doc.htm
• Stressing ‘1.5°C limit is possible’, Secretary-General urges International Climate and Energy Summit to expedite fossil-fuel phase-out, net-zero timelines (SG/SM/21967, 2 October 2023): https://press.un.org/en/2023/sgsm21967.doc.htm
• ‘Small Island States do not lack ambition, they lack finance’, Secretary-General tells Alliance, calling for Developed Countries to fulfil climate action support (SG/SM/21959, 22 September 2023): https://press.un.org/en/2023/sgsm21959.doc.htm
• Grappling with chaotic weather patterns, debt distress, Least Developed Countries need climate, financial justice, Secretary-General Urges at Ministerial Meeting (SG/SM/21958, 21 September 2023): https://press.un.org/en/2023/sgsm21958.doc.htm
• Calling Climate Ambition Summit ‘Climate Hope Summit’, Secretary-General urges ‘first-doers’ to take no prisoners, achieve 1.5°C limit (SG/SM/21954, 20 September 2023): https://press.un.org/en/2023/sgsm21954.doc.htm
• Global Leaders must take action to reduce emissions, create just transition plans, Secretary-General tells Climate Ambition Summit (SG/SM/21951, 20 September 2023): https://press.un.org/en/2023/sgsm21951.doc.htm
• Climate breakdown has begun with hottest summer on record, Secretary-General warns, calling on Leaders to ‘turn up the heat now’ for climate solutions (SG/SM/21926, 6 September 2023): https://press.un.org/en/2023/sgsm21926.doc.htm
• Developed countries must deliver climate justice, Secretary-General tells African Youth Assembly, underlining need ‘to turn up the volume in calling for change’ (SG/SM/21923, 1 September 2023): https://press.un.org/en/2023/sgsm21923.doc.htm
• Make youth participation ‘the norm, rather than the exception’, to shape climate resilient future, Secretary-General urges Governments on International Day (SG/SM/21899, 7 August 2023): https://press.un.org/en/2023/sgsm21899.doc.htm
• Cooperation, unity key to managing climate crisis, technological challenges, Secretary-General tells Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SG/SM/21862, 4 July 2023): https://press.un.org/en/2023/sgsm21862.doc.htm
• World in dangerous waters on climate, Secretary-General warns Marine Environment Protection Committee, stressing their decisions could steer to safer future (SG/SM/21859, 3 July 2023): https://press.un.org/en/2023/sgsm21859.doc.htm
• In Briefing on Climate Ambition Summit, Deputy Secretary-General stresses still possible to limit rise in global temperature if we take action (DSG/SM/1857, 9 June 2023): https://press.un.org/en/2023/dsgsm1857.doc.htm
• ‘We know the truth’ about climate crisis, Secretary-General tells Petersberg Dialogue, urging states accelerate net-zero deadlines (SG/SM/21784, 2 May 2023): https://press.un.org/en/2023/sgsm21784.doc.htm
• ‘Now is the time to speak up, louder than ever’ for climate action, says Secretary-General at Time Earth Awards Event (SG/SM/21778, 25 April 2023): https://press.un.org/en/2023/sgsm21778.doc.htm
• Geopolitical divisions ‘must not torpedo world’s climate fight for 1.5°C’, Secretary-General tells Major Economies Forum (SG/SM/21769, 20 April 2023): https://press.un.org/en/2023/sgsm21769.doc.htm
• International Court’s Advisory Opinions on climate change obligations of states ‘of tremendous importance’, Secretary-General tells General Assembly (SG/SM/21750, 29 March 2023): https://press.un.org/en/2023/sgsm21750.doc.htm
• Secretary-General calls on states to tackle climate change ‘time bomb’ through new solidarity pact, acceleration agenda, at launch of Intergovernmental Panel Report (SG/SM/21730, 20 March 2023): https://press.un.org/en/2023/sgsm21730.doc.htm
• Point world towards solutions, show need to end global heating with cold, hard facts, Secretary-General tells Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (SG/SM/21722, 13 March 2023): https://press.un.org/en/2023/sgsm21722.doc.htm
• Secretary-General urges big greenhouse gas emitters to form climate solidarity pact, stressing renewables ‘only credible path forward’ for securing humankind’s future (SG/SM/21656, 14 January 2023): https://press.un.org/en/2023/sgsm21656.doc.htm
• Global community must be honest about brutal injustice of loss felt by developing countries due to climate change, Secretary-General tells Conference on Pakistan (SG/SM/21650, 9 January 2023): https://press.un.org/en/2023/sgsm21650.doc.htm

Further information

• UN News Centre on Climate and Environment: https://news.un.org/en/news/topic/climate-change
  • 8 reasons not to give up hope – and take climate action (4 April 2022): https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/04/1115512
• International Court of Justice – Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change: https://www.icj-cij.org/case/187
• The Climate Dictionary: An everyday guide to climate change (2 February 2023): https://climatepromise.undp.org/news-and-stories/climate-dictionary-everyday-guide-climate-change
• UNDP Campaign: Don’t choose extinction – A message to humanity from Frankie the dinosaur: https://dontchooseextinction.com/
• Sustainable Development Goal 13 – Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts:
  http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/climatechange/
  http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/climate-change-2/
• Global Issues on the UN Agenda – Climate Change:
  https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/climate-change
• Historic UN Human Rights case opens door to climate change asylum claims (21 January 2020): https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2020/01/historic-un-human-rights-case-opens-door-climate-change-asylum-claims
• UN child rights committee voices support for children campaigning on climate change (27 September 2019): https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2019/09/un-child-rights-committee-voices-support-children-campaigning-climate-change
• Countries violate rights over climate change, argue youth activists in landmark UN complaint (24 September 2019): https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/09/1047292
• Audiovisual Library of International Law
  • United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 1992 / Introductory note by Laurence Boisson de Chazournes: http://legal.un.org/avl/ha/ccc/ccc.html
  • Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 1997 / Introductory note by Laurence Boisson de Chazournes: http://legal.un.org/avl/ha/kpccc/kpccc.html
  • Paris Agreement, 2015 / Introductory note by Daniel Bodansky: https://legal.un.org/avl/ha/pa/pa.html
  • Air, Atmosphere and Climate Change / by Paolo Galizzi: https://legal.un.org/avl/ls/Galizzi_EL.html
  • Protection of the Atmosphere and Codification and Progressive Development of International Law / by Shinya Murase: http://legal.un.org/avl/ls/Murase_EL.html
  • Climate Change and the Protection of the Ocean / by Dr. Nilüfer Oral: http://legal.un.org/avl/ls/Oral_EL.html
  • The International Climate Change Regime: Evolution and Challenges / by Ms. Lavanya Rajamani: https://legal.un.org/avl/ls/Rajamani_EL.html
  • The International Law of Climate Change after the Paris Agreement / by Mr. Jorge E. Viñuales: http://legal.un.org/avl/ls/Vinuales_EL.html
  • Climate Change and Population Movement / by Mr. Walter Kälin: http://legal.un.org/avl/ls/Kaelin_DPR.html
• Dag Hammarskjöld Library Digitization Blog – Convention on Climate Change: https://www.un.org/en/library/digitization-update-conv-climate-change
• UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library Research Guides – Climate Change – A Global Issue: http://research.un.org/en/climate-change
• United Nations Library Geneva Research Guide on Climate Change: https://libraryresources.unog.ch/climatechange
• Ask Dag! What is the United Nations doing about climate change?
  https://ask.un.org/faq/332864
• Ask Dag! What is the history of the Paris Agreement (2015)?
  https://ask.un.org/faq/120272
• INTERVIEW: “Climate change is in everybody’s backyard” – Robert Redford (UN News Centre, 1 July 2015):  https://news.un.org/en/story/2015/07/503332-interview-climate-change-everybodys-backyard-robert-redford

Selection of Publications available online

• UN News Centre on Climate Change: https://news.un.org/en/news/topic/climate-change
• UNEP Publications on Climate Change: http://www.unep.org/publications/
• UNFCCC Publications: https://unfccc.int/about-us/press-and-media/publications
• IPCC Reports (including IPCC Assessment Reports): https://www.ipcc.ch/reports/
• The Emissions Gap Report 2024 (UNEP): https://www.unep.org/resources/emissions-gap-report-2024
• World Bank Publications: https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/browse/subject?startsWith=C
• General recommendation No. 37 (2018) on the gender-related dimensions of disaster risk reduction in the context of climate change (CEDAW/C/GC/37, 13 March 2018):
  http://undocs.org/CEDAW/C/GC/37
• Climate Change Action for Sustainable Development (DESA, October 2015): http://bit.ly/1icXmUr
• Turn Down the Heat Reports (World Bank): http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/climatechange/publication/turn-down-the-heat
• Protecting People Crossing Borders in the Context of Climate Change: Normative Gaps and Possible Approaches (UNHCR, February 2012): http://www.unhcr.org/4f33f1729.html