Overview of climate change, relying on the UN framework convention on climate change conferences and the role of IRAN
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Mosayeb Moghbeli Damaneh, Seyed Hossein Sanaeenejad
Abstract The role of human activities on exacerbating climate changes and human society's exposure to the risks is the main reason to deal with the phenomena as the most priority among the world's problems. These changes are due to dramatically increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere during last century. Climate change is mainly known as increasing in global temperature. Melting of polar ice, rising of oceans level, long-term droughts, water resource depletion, storms and flash floods, extreme temperatures, increasing of dust and air pollution. Following repeated warnings by scientists in 1992, "United Nations Convention on Climate Change" was held by United Nations to address this issue. In order to stabilize concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to a certain level, the convention arranges an annual conference entitled "Conference of the Parties", in one of the member countries. In this study climate change and its risks and the importance of holding this conferences are discussed. Challenges to be faced and the actions to be taken related to this issue were also examined.