COP24 is the informal name for the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

The UNFCCC is a “Rio Convention”, one of three adopted at the “Rio Earth Summit” in 1992. The UNFCCC entered into force on 21 March 1994. Today, it has near-universal membership. The countries that have ratified the Convention are called Parties to the Convention. Preventing “dangerous” human interference with the climate system is the ultimate aim of the UNFCCC.

The Conference of the Parties (COP) is the supreme body of the UNFCCC Convention. It consists of the representatives of the Parties to the Convention. It holds its sessions every year. The COP takes decisions which are necessary to ensure the effective implementation of the provisions of the Convention and regularly reviews the implementation of these provisions.

In accordance with a decision of the 22nd Session of the Conference of the Parties to the Climate Convention (COP22) in Marrakesh in November 2016, the successive climate summit will be held in Poland. Poland was selected to host this event within the framework of the Eastern European Group (EEG).

Poland will hold the Presidency of the Climate Convention for the third time.

COP24 will take place from 3-14 December 2018, in Katowice, Poland.

Please see their official website here.

Institute of Development Studies is offering a 5-day course in Jan 2019.

You’ll learn through a mixture of presentations plus Q&A, individual and small group work with plenary discussion around a set of case studies. The cases will be referred to each day, and participants will apply their knowledge incrementally to the same case – ending up with a ‘finished’ example of a strong, interlinked mixed-methods research design to collect evidence to verify the theory of change of a project or programme.

Please see here for more details.