International Climate Change: A Negotiations Side-by-Side

Jane A. Leggett | Congressional Research Service | 2010-11-18

This report provides a general overview of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) within the context of the 2010 meeting of the convention in Cancun, Mexico. "Under the UNFCCC, 194 governments, including the United States, have taken on obligations to address climate change through enhanced scientific and technological cooperation, assessment of sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and removals, and policies and measures to mitigate GHG and to promote adaptation to climate changes," the report notes.

The document coincides a report by the same author titled "International Financing of Responses to Climate Change," which is dated Nov. 23, 2010 in the WPR Document Center.