page_title: 2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference
section_title: Context
hierarchical_section_title: 2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference / Context
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Bannière «&#160;Changeons le système, pas le climat&#160;» à la Marche pour le climat du samedi 8 décembre 2018, à Paris (France). English: Banner "Change the system, not the climate", at the Climate March in Paris, on 8 December 2018.
context_page_description: The 2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference was the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, also known as the Katowice Climate Change Conference. It was held between 2 and 15 December 2018 in Katowice, Poland. The conference was held in the International Congress Centre. The president of COP24 was Michał Kurtyka. The conference also incorporated the fourteenth meeting of the parties for the Kyoto Protocol, and the third session of the first meeting of the parties for the Paris Agreement which agreed on rules to implement the Agreement. The conference's objective was to have a full implementation of the Paris agreement.
context_section_description: After the United States left the Paris Agreement, China took a leading role by hosting many of the preparatory meetings in the weeks beforehand.
  In November 2018, the World Meteorological Organization released a report stating that 2017 atmospheric carbon dioxide levels reached 405 parts per million (ppm), a level not seen in three to five million years. In October 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C (SR15).
caption: "Change the system, not the climate" at the People's Climate March in Paris, on 8 December 2018.
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