Annual Report 2000

UNEP/GRID-Arendal Annual Report 2000

Support to Conventions

During year 2000 GRID-Arendal focused attention and expertise on support to international environmental conventions.

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The Sixth Conference of the Parties under the UN Climate Change Convention (COP6)

"Fortunately, a good deal of the evidence and information we have about climate change lends itself to graphical presentation. The visual information contained in Vital Climate Graphics makes it possible to grasp complex facts more quickly and fully than would be possible through simple text." Klaus Töpfer, UNEP Executive Director

This information package focuses on the environmental and so- cio-economic impacts of climate change. The graphics are based primarily on the IPCC's Second Assessment Report (SAR), es- pecially the contribution of Working Group II on Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation of Climate Change and on the IPCC Special Report on Regional Impacts of Climate Change. www.grida.no/climate

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), es- tablished in 1988 by UNEP and the World Meteorological Or- ganization (WMO), is the world's most authoritative scientific and technical source of climate change information. Its assess- ments provided an essential basis for the United Nations Frame- work Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol. In cooperation with the UNFCCC secretariat, UNEP actively implemented Article 6 of the Convention, addressing public awareness, education and training. As part of this effort, GRID-Arendal developed and produced an informa- tion package called Vital Climate Graphics.