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UNEP/GRID-Arendal
Annual Report
2000
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Support to
Conventions
During year 2000 GRID-Arendal focused attention and expertise
on support to international environmental conventions.
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
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.
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