COP 15 - December 2009
From Monday 7th to Friday 18 December 2009 in Copenhagen, DENMARK, the 15th annual Session of the Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change was held. The World Ocean Network took part this event as part of its commitment to fighting climate change.
The World Ocean Network was accorded observer status for this event.
From the 7th to the 18th December 2009, the World Ocean Network, in collaboration with the Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts and Islands, put on an exhibition entitled, « How to mobilise both civil society and the private sector on issues related to the ocean and climate change, and, at the same time, equip them to respond to the challenges they will face in the aftermath of the Copenhagen agreement? »
From the European Environment Agency offices in Copenhagen the Network also took part, throughout the day of the 14th December, in World Oceans Day, a celebration organised by the Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts and Islands in parallel with COP 15.
On the 15th December 2009 from 9.00am to 10.30am the World Ocean Network and ECSITE (European Association of museums, research centres and aquariums) organised a round table as part of COP 15 on the theme « science centres, museums and aquariums commit to action on global warming ».
The sixteenth Conference of the Parties (COP) and the sixth Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP) was held in Cancun, Mexico, from 29 November to 10 December 2010.
The World Ocean Network kept a regularly updated blog on the progress made at these climate change events.
Please click here to read the 1992 Framework Convention of the United Nations on climate changes and here to upload the list of the signatory state parties.