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| Christina Figueres - she is intent on seeing the world save itself from itself. |
he United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change, or U.N.F.C.C.C., has by now been
ratified by a hundred and ninety-five countries, which, depending on how you
count, represents either all the countries in the world or all the countries
and then some.
Every year, the treaty stipulates, the signatories have to
hold a meeting—a gathering that’s known as a COP, short for Conference of the
Parties. The third COP produced the Kyoto Protocol, which, in turn, gave rise
to another mandatory gathering, a MOP, or Meeting of the Parties.
The seventeenth COP, which coincided with the seventh MOP,
took place in South Africa. There it was decided that the work of previous COPs
and MOPs had been inadequate, and a new group was formed—the Ad Hoc Working
Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action, usually referred to as the
A.D.P. The A.D.P. subsequently split into A.D.P.-1 and A.D.P.-2, each of which
held meetings of its own.
Read Elizabeth Kolbert’s story in The New Yorker - “The weight of the world”.
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