The 2006 UN Climate Change Conference in Nairobi: Background and Expectations

Briefing Note

From November 6 to 17, 2006, the world’s governments will meet in Nairobi, Kenya to resume critical negotiations on reductions of the greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution that causes climate change. This document outlines the actions the 165 Kyoto countries must perform to reach agreement on a sufficiently strong Kyoto phase II by the 2008–09 deadline.