The UNFCCC will next host delegates from its 192 member nations in December at Durban, South Africa.
FORBES: UN Climate Chief Dismisses US Threat To Abandon Negotiations
Since the UNFCCC was signed, much has changed, though more in the biosphere than the human sphere.
Carbon-dioxide emissions are now 30% higher than they were when the UNFCCC was signed 17 years ago.
More than 120 countries have sent letters to the UNFCCC secretariat saying whether or not they endorse the accord.
Speaking in Brussels, Gro Harlem Brundtland - the UN's special envoy on climate change - suggested there would now be a twin-track approach, with some of the important discussions taking place outside the UNFCCC umbrella.
The Dutch official steered the UNFCCC through the most tortuous phase of its existence, spanning the Bali summit of 2007 that promised a new comprehensive global agreement within two years and the Copenhagen summit of 2009 that failed to deliver such an agreement.
Over the past year, the AfDB has engaged extensively in international discussions, such as the World Water Forum, COPs of the UNFCCC , Climate Investment Funds Partnership Forum, Africa Carbon Forum, and providing support for the African Group of Negotiators in the UN processes.
"So if you're the new UNFCCC head, the first task would be to project the correct view that the UN processes, its practices and principles, are respected, " he told BBC News.
Ms Figueres, a Costa Rican diplomat and 15-year veteran of the UN climate process, takes over from the current UNFCCC executive secretary Yvo de Boer early next month.
However, the BASIC countries have now affirmed that the UN climate convention (UNFCCC) should be the sovereign body for international climate talks.
"The conference decides to take note of the Copenhagen Accord of December 18, 2009, " the chairman of the plenary session of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) declared earlier in the day, swiftly banging down his gavel.
Asked about those comments at the time, former UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer offered a conciliatory response.
FORBES: UN Climate Chief Dismisses US Threat To Abandon Negotiations
Despite the establishment of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Rio two decades ago, the global debate has been dominated almost exclusively by climate scientists and policy-makers.
She is also co-founder of UN fair play, a group formed to support underrepresented Government Delegations at the UN climate negotiations (UNFCCC).
In the jargon, this is an increase in carbon intensity - the exact reverse of what just about every government has pledged to bring about in their promises to the UN climate convention (UNFCCC).
The interagency partnership (UNESCO, UNICEF, UNEP, UNFCCC, UNITAR and UNDP) represents a support structure for the implementation of the Doha work programme on Article 6 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which focuses on education, training and public awareness.
Ms Figueres has chaired many working groups and committees within the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and is regarded as having a deep understanding of its processes and its outstanding issues.
Jordan's Second National Communication (SNC) report to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) released in 2009, rising temperatures will lead to a decrease in surface runoff.
On the occasion of the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Durban, South Africa, UNESCO, SCOPE and UNEP are pleased to launch a new publication entitled Engineering the Climate: Research Questions and Policy Implications.
The 17th Conference of the Parties (COP 17) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will be held in Durban, South Africa, from 28 November to 9 December, just a year after the United Nations Climate Change conference held in Cancun in 2010, and two years after the Copenhagen Conference.
He said UNFCCC calculations had taken into account only half of the extra disease burden due to emerge from climate change, assumed low levels of future development in Africa (so giving less infrastructure to protect), used low estimates for sea level rise and had not included the economic costs of nature loss.
Enhanced international recognition of coastal carbon ecosystems: through established international bodies such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
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