The United Nations Climate Change Conference - Copenhagen, 2009 kicked off December 7th with a strong sense of confidence that countries can seal a
comprehensive, ambitious and effective international climate change deal in Denmark and with an unprecedented sense of urgency to act on climate change.
The highly anticipated conference marks a historic turning point on how the world confronts climate change, an issue with profound implications for the health and prosperity of all
people.
The two-week meeting, the fifteenth Conference of the 193 Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the fifth meeting of the 189 Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, is the culmination of a process set in motion in Bali, where Parties to the UNFCCC agreed to conclude negotiations on a new global deal in Denmark in 2009.