This briefing note is based on a stakeholder dialogue organized by the UN World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP) at the Dialogs for Water and Climate and Climate Change (D4CC) during the 16th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change(COP 16), held in Cancun, Mexico from November 29 to December 10, 2010 (more information).
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.