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For this year's UN climate summit (COP27), occurring in Egypt held from November 6 until November 20, 2022, the stakes couldn't be higher or the need for more serious considerations for vulnerable nations — especially as COP26 failed to convey adequate outcomes to address their issues.

Vulnerable countries across the world can't be made to hang tight for long term dialogues when the necessities are so up and coming and dire. COP27 needs to guarantee that no country is left behind.

The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also called COP26, was the 26th United Nations Climate Change conference. It was held in the city of Glasgow, Scotland, between 31 October and 12 November 2021, under the co-administration of the United Kingdom and Italy.

The UN Climate Change Conference COP 25 (2 Dec 2019 – 13 Dec 2019) took place under the Presidency of the Government of Chile and held with logistical help from the Government of Spain. SBSTA 51/SBI 51 occurred from 2-9 December 2019. The pre-sessional period was from 25 November - 1 December 2019. The President-Designate for the meeting is Ms. Carolina Schmidt Zaldivar, Minister of Environment of Chile.

COP 24 took place in Katowice, Poland from 3–14 December 2018. The Polish government's vision for presidency expresses that the association of COP 24 will give a chance to persuade different nations that Poland does not hamper the process of tackling hazardous climate change and that Poland is one of the heads of this process.

COP 23, the twenty-third session was held on 6-17 November 2017. On Friday, 18 November 2016, the finish of COP 22, the Chairperson of COP 23 from Fiji declared that it will be held in Bonn, Germany. Fijian Prime Minister and incoming President of COP 23, Frank Bainimarama, on 13 April launched the logo of the current year's United Nations Climate Change Conference, to be held at UN Campus, Bonn in November.

COP 22 was held in Marrakech, in the North-African nation of Morocco, on 7-18 November 2016. A central issue of COP 22 is that of water shortage, water cleanliness, and water-related maintainability, a significant issue in the developing world, including numerous African states. Preceding the occasion a unique initiative on water was presided by Charafat Afailal, Morocco's Minister in Charge of Water and Aziz Mekouar, COP 22 Ambassador for Multilateral Negotiations. Another central issue was the need to diminish greenhouse emissions and use low-carbon energy sources. Mr. Peter Thompson, President of the UN General Assembly, required the change of the global economy in all areas to accomplish a low emissions global economy.

The COP 21 was held in Paris from 30 November to 12 December 2015. Negotiations brought about the adoption of the Paris Agreement on 12 December, administering environmental change reduction measures from 2020. The adoption of this arrangement finished the work by the Durban stage, laid out during COP17. The agreement will go into power (and consequently become completely viable) on 4 November 2016. On 4 October 2016 the limit for adoption was reached with over 55 nations addressing at least 55% of the world's ozone gas emissions ratifying the agreement.

COP 20 was held on 1–12 December 2014 in Lima, Peru. The twentieth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the 10th session of the Meeting of the Parties (CMP) to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. However, the pre-COP conference was held in Venezuela.

COP 19 was the nineteenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the ninth meeting of the Meeting of the Parties (CMP) to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol (the convention having been created under the UNFCCC's sanction). The meeting was held in Warsaw, Poland from 11 to 23 November 2013.

Qatar facilitated COP 18 which occurred in Doha, Qatar, from 26 November to 7 December 2012. The Conference produced a bundle of documents on the whole named The Doha Climate Gateway. The meeting gained little headway towards subsidizing the Green Climate Fund. Russia, Belarus and Ukraine protested toward the finish of the session, as they reserved a privilege to under the session's rules. In closing the meeting, the President said that he would take note of these protests in his final report.

The 2011 COP 17 was held in Durban, South Africa, from 28 November to 9 December 2011.The meeting agreed to beginning negotiations on a legitimately official arrangement comprising all nations, to be taken on in 2015, overseeing the period post 2020. There was also progress in regards to the making of a Green Climate Fund (GCF) for which an administration structure was embraced. The fund is to distribute US$100 billion every year to assist poor nations with adjusting to environmental influences. While the president of the conference, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, proclaimed it a triumph, researchers and environmental groups cautioned that the agreement was not adequate to avoid an unnatural weather change past 2 °C as a more urgent act is required.

COP 16 was held in Cancun, Mexico, from 28 November to 10 December 2010. The result of the summit was a contract taken on by the states' parties that required the US $100 billion for every annum "Green Climate Fund", and a "Climate Technology Center" and organization. Anyway the subsidizing of the Green Climate Fund was not settled upon. Nor was a pledge to a second time of the Kyoto Protocol agreed upon, however it was reasoned that the base year will be 1990 and the global warming potentials will be those given by the IPCC. All parties perceiving that environmental change addresses a pressing and possibly irreversible danger to human societies and the planet, and accordingly expects to be earnestly addressed by all Parties.

COP 15 took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 7-18 December 2009.The general objective for the COP 15/CMP 5 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Denmark was to lay out an ambitious global climate agreement for the period from 2012 when the first commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol lapsed. On 14 November 2009, the New York Times declared that "President Obama and other world pioneers have chosen to put off the difficult undertaking of arriving at an environmental change agreement... concurring rather to make it the mission of the Copenhagen conference to arrive at a less specific "politically restricting" agreement that would dropkick the most difficult issues into what's in store".

COP 14/CMP 4 was held on 1-12 December 2008 in Poznan, Poland. Delegates settled on principles for the support of a fund to assist the poorest countries with adapting with the impacts of environmental change and they endorsed a mechanism to incorporate forest protection into the endeavors of the worldwide local area to battle environmental change. Negotiations on a successor to the Kyoto Protocol were the essential focal point of the conference.

COP 13/CMP 3 was held on 3-17 December 2007, at Nusa Dua, in Bali, Indonesia. With the adoption of the Conference of the Parties 13, Agreement on a timeline and structured exchange on the post-2012 framework (the end of the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol) was achieved. The Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA) was laid out as another subsidiary body to lead the negotiations focused on earnestly improving the execution of the Convention up to and past 2012. Decision 9/CP.13 is an Amended to the New Delhi work program. These negotiations occurred during 2008 (leading to COP 14/CMP 4 in Poznan, Poland) and 2009 (leading to COP 15/CMP 5 in Copenhagen).

COP 12/CMP 2 held on 6 -17 November 2006 in Nairobi, Kenya. At the meeting, BBC reporter Richard Black instituted the saying "climate tourists" to describe a few representatives who joined in "to see Africa, take snaps of the untamed life, poor people, dying African children and women".

Black also noted that there were no discussions related to reducing emissions. The meeting showed a strong disconnection between the scientific imperative and the political process. In spite of such analysis, certain steps were made at COP12, remembering the areas of help for support for developing countries and clean advancement components. The parties adopted a five-year plan of work to help environmental change transformation by developing countries, and settled on the methodology and modalities for the Adaptation Fund. They also consented to work on the undertakings for a clean development mechanism.

COP 11/CMP 1 occurred between 28 November and 9 December 2005, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was the principal Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 1) since their underlying meeting in Kyoto in 1997. It was one of the biggest intergovernmental conferences on environmental change of all time.

The event marked the section into power of the Kyoto Protocol. Facilitating in excess of 10,000 delegates, it was one of Canada's biggest global occasions ever and the biggest get-together in Montreal since Expo 67. The Montreal Action Plan was an agreement to "broaden the existence of the Kyoto Protocol past its 2012 expiration date and negotiate deeper cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions". Canada's environment minister, at that point, Stéphane Dion, said the understanding gives a future map.

COP 10 was held from 6 – 17 December 2004, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This event majorly focused on discussing the progress made in ten years since the first Conference of the Parties. To advance & promote developing nations better adjust to environmental change, the Buenos Aires Plan of Action was taken on. The parties also started examining the post-Kyoto mechanism, on the best way to allocate emission reduction obligation following 2012, when the commitment period ends.

COP 9 was held from 1-12 December 2003 in Milan. The parties consented to utilize the Adaptation Fund established at COP7 in 2001 principally in supporting developing nations better adjust to environmental change. The fund would also be utilized for capacity-building through transfer in technology. At COP9, the parties also consented to audit the primary public reports presented by 110 non-Annex I nations.

This meeting was held from 23 October to 1 November 2002, in New Delhi. COP 8 adopted the Delhi Ministerial Declaration calling for endeavors by developed nations to move innovation and limit the effect of environmental change on developing countries. It additionally approved the New Delhi work program on Article 6 of the Convention

The COP8 was marked by Russia's hesitation, expressing that it required additional opportunity to thoroughly consider it. The Kyoto Protocol could go into force whenever it was approved by 55 nations, including nations answerable for 55% of the developed world's 1990 carbon dioxide emanations. With the United States (36.1 percent of created world carbon dioxide) and Australia refusing ratification, Russia's understanding (17% of worldwide outflows in 1990) was expected to meet the approval measures and thus Russia could delay the cycle.

At the COP 7 meeting held in Marrakech, Morocco from 29 October to 10 November 2001, negotiators wrapped up the work on the Buenos Aires Plan of Action, finishing the majority of the functional details and making way for countries to endorse the Kyoto Protocol. The completed package of choices is known as the Marrakesh Accords.

The United States delegation kept up with its onlooker job, declining to take part effectively in the negotiations. Other parties hoped that the United States would re-engage in the process and worked to achieve confirmation of the Kyoto Protocol by the required number of nations to bring it into force. The date of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (August-September 2002) was advanced as an objective to bring the Kyoto Protocol into force.

COP 6 was held on 13–25 November 2000, in The Hague, Netherlands. The conversations developed quickly into a significant level discussion over the major political issues. These included significant discussion over the United States' proposition to permit credit for carbon "sinks" in forests and farming grounds that would fulfill a significant extent of the U.S. emissions reductions along these lines; conflicts over consequences non-compliance by countries that didn't meet their reduction targets; and difficulties in settling how developing nations could acquire financial assistance to manage unfriendly impacts of environmental change and meet their commitments to make arrangements plan for measuring and possibly reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

COP 5 that was held between 25 October and 5 November 1999, in Bonn, Germany was mainly a technical conference. This year, the conference did not reach any major conclusions.

COP 4 took place in November 1998 in Buenos Aires. It had been expected that the issues unresolved in Kyoto COP 3 would be settled at this conference. However, the intricacy and trouble of finding agreement on these issues proved insurmountable, and on second thought the parties adopted a 2-year "Strategy" to propel endeavors and to devise systems for executing the Kyoto Protocol, to be finished by 2000. During COP4, Argentina and Kazakhstan expressed their commitment to take on the greenhouse gas emissions reduction commitment.

COP 3 was held in Kyoto, Japan from 4 - 15 November 1997. During this conference, the Kyoto Protocol is adopted with the obligation to diminish emissions of greenhouse gases in industrialized nations. It establishes the foundation of the carbon market..

COP 2 occurred in July 1996 in Geneva, Switzerland. Its ministerial announcement was noted (but not adopted) on 18 July 1996, and mirrored a United States position statement introduced by Timothy Wirth, previous Under Secretary for Global Affairs for the United States Department of State at that gathering.

The first UNFCCC Conference of the Parties occurred from 28 March to 7 April 1995 in Berlin, Germany. It voiced worries about the sufficiency of nations' capacities to meet responsibilities under the Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (BSTA) and the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI). COP 1 settled on "Exercises Implemented Jointly", first joint estimates in global environment activity.

For this year's UN climate summit (COP28), occurring in Dubai held from 30th November until 12th December, 2023, More than 70,000 delegates, including members of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), are anticipated to attend COP28. Participants include business leaders, young people, climate scientists, indigenous peoples, journalists, and a variety of other specialists and stakeholders.
The global climate action for the next five-year cycle under the Paris Agreement, starting with the conclusion of the first Global Stocktake at the end of COP 28.