United Nations Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Environment and climate === {{Further|United Nations Environment Programme|United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change|Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change}} Beginning with the formation of the [[UN Environmental Programme]] (or the UNEP) in 1972, the UN has made environmental issues a prominent part of its agenda. A lack of success in the first two decades of UN work in this area led to the [[Earth Summit]] in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992; which sought to give new impetus to these efforts.{{sfn|Kennedy|2007|pp=160β162}} In 1988, the UNEP and the [[World Meteorological Organization]] (or the WMO), another UN organization, established the [[Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]], which assesses and reports on research on [[global warming]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ipcc.ch/organization/organization.shtml#.Uo4YtsSsgus |title=Organizations |publisher=Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |access-date=21 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212170626/http://www.ipcc.ch/organization/organization.shtml#.Uo4YtsSsgus |archive-date=12 December 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> The UN-sponsored [[Kyoto Protocol]] set legally binding emissions reduction targets for ratifying states.{{sfn|Fasulo|2004|p=179}} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page