The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a scientific and intergovernmental body of the United Nations (UN) tasked with providing an objective scientific assessment of climate change and its potential political, economic, social and environmental impacts. IPCC reports support the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the main international treaty on climate change that has the purpose of stabilising greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at a level that will prevent ‘dangerous’ anthropogenic climate change (i.e. that caused by human activity).

An annual ‘Conference of Interested Parties’ (COP) assesses progress towards achieving this goal, and in December 2015 agreed the ‘Paris Agreement’ that set out member countries' obligations to reduce GHG emissions and fund measures to mitigate the effects of climate change. 195 countries signed the agreement. This activity simulates the negotiation process that created it.

Audience
▪ The activity is intended for students aged 14-18 but has been used with younger and older students. Ideally, they should have recently completed a topic on climate change. Inevitably, some concepts have been simplified to meet the needs of this age group.

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