ESG Learning Series - United Nations COP climate change conferences

This 1-hour program consisted of 3 courses, covering the following learning objectives: (1) the history and development of the United Nations Environment Programme, (2) the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and (3) the Global Net-Zero Commitments and the Paris Agreement.

Learning objectives

Unit 1: Discussing Global Net-Zero Commitments

• The Paris Agreement and greenhouse gas emissions

• United Nations Environment Programme

• Regulations related to Net-Zero commitments

Unit 2: Discussing the United Nations COP climate change conferences

• UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

• UN ‘COP’ climate change conferences

• The Kyoto Protocol

• The Paris Agreement

Unit 3: Introducing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

• How the world woke up to climate change

• The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

• The six IPCC assessment reports