One of the first tasks set by the UNFCCC was for signatory nations to establish national greenhouse gas inventories of greenhouse gas ( GHG ) emissions and removals, which were used to create the 1990 benchmark levels for accession of Annex I countries to the Kyoto Protocol and for the commitment of those countries to GHG reductions.

In December 2007, Markey became the first US politician to utilize the medium of Second Life, through which he addressed the delegates of the UNFCCC in Bali as part of OneClimate's Virtual Bali event.

The first phase of EU ETS was created to operate apart from international climate change treaties such as the pre-existing United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC, 1992 ) or the Kyoto Protocol that was subsequently ( 1997 ) established under it.

The Home Power Station was first launched by Econet Wireless Executive Chairman, Strive Masiyiwa, in Durban during the 17th Conference of the Parties ( COP17 ) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ).

The Summary Report, which was prepared for this Conference, indicates, first, that actual or pending school desegregation is increasing ; ;

# The Lambeth Conference ( first held in 1867 ) is the oldest international consultation.

# The Anglican Consultative Council ( first met in 1971 ) was created by a 1968 Lambeth Conference resolution, and meets usually at three year intervals.

* 1955 – 29 nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference.

The 1937 British Methodist Conference located the " true continuity " with the Church of past ages in " the continuity of Christian experience, the fellowship in the gift of the one Spirit ; in the continuity in the allegiance to one Lord, the continued proclamation of the message ; the continued acceptance of the mission ;..." a long chain which goes back to the " the first disciples in the company of the Lord Himself ...

When debates polarise between techniques, the methods are often referred to by a colour code, based on the colours of the bindings of the two volumes from the first Oxford Conference, where the approaches were first distinguished.

The Balfour Declaration of 1926, a report resulting from the 1926 Imperial Conference of British Empire leaders in London, was named after the British statesman Arthur Balfour, first Earl of Balfour, Lord President of the Council and a previous Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

The team went on to beat Whittier College on February 10, for its second SCIAC win, and placed its first member on the All Conference team.

The team was founded in the 1940s as a charter franchise in the All-America Football Conference ( AAFC ), with Paul Brown, the team's namesake and a pioneering figure in professional football, as its first coach.

At the 19th Conference, the first party conference held since 1941, several delegates asked for the introduction of term limits, and an end to appointments of officials, and to introduce multi-candidate elections within the party.

There was talk of a Maritime Union of the three provinces to have greater political power ; however, the first discussions on the subject in 1864 at the Charlottetown Conference led to the process of Canadian Confederation which formed the larger Dominion of Canada instead. Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia, an archetypal Maritime scene

" The prototype was first shown publicly at the Joint Computer Conference in Boston in December 1959.

In December 1995, at the Fourth WWW Conference in Boston, he was the first recipient of what would later become the Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award.

The two conference title games led to a hot bidding war between the clubs for players ; the Niners signed cornerback Deion Sanders from the Atlanta Falcons and also signed linebacker Ken Norton, Jr. from the Cowboys ; they defeated the Cowboys 21-14 in the 1994 regular season and then hosted the Cowboys in that year's Conference title game, with the Cowboys now coached by Barry Switzer ; the 49ers raced to a 21-0 lead in the first seven minutes of the first quarter and won 38-28 en route to Super Bowl XXIX.

The day before Hilbert pronounced these phrases at the 1930 annual meeting of the Society of German Scientists and Physicians, Kurt Gödel — in a roundtable discussion during the Conference on Epistemology held jointly with the Society meetings — tentatively announced the first expression of his incompleteness theorem.

Final Scratch debuted at the BE Developer Conference, marking the first digital DJ system to allow DJs control of MP3 files through special time-coded vinyl records or CDs.

The following season, the Wings looked poised to " three-peat " for the first time in franchise history, acquiring three-time top blueliner Chris Chelios from his hometown Chicago Blackhawks in March 1999, but they would end up losing the Western Conference Semifinals to Colorado in six games.

The Wings finished first in the Western Conference and tied for first in the NHL with the Buffalo Sabres, but the Sabres were awarded the Presidents ' Trophy by virtue of having the greater number of wins.

Egypt played an important role in the negotiations leading to the Madrid Conference of 1991, which, under United States and Soviet sponsorship, brought together all parties in the region, including for the first time a Palestinian delegation, to discuss Middle East peace.

By March 1943, the first National Conference of the Communist Party elected Hoxha formally as First Secretary.

* 1991: The first pan-African Esperanto Conference is held in Lomé, Togo.

The first formulation of American fundamentalist beliefs can be traced to the Niagara Bible Conference and, in 1910, to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, which distilled these into what became known as the " five fundamentals ":

Devo also confirmed that they would be performing at All Tomorrow's Parties on May 6 and 8, with the May 6th performance featuring the band performing their first album, Q: Are We Not Men?

Using foreign Communist Parties to recruit volunteers for Spain was first proposed in the Soviet Union in September 1936 — apparently at the suggestion of Maurice Thorez — by Willi Münzenberg, chief of Comintern propaganda for Western Europe.

Kyoto Parties with first period ( 2008-2012 ) greenhouse gas emissions limitations targets, and the percentage change in their carbon dioxide emissions from fuel combustion between 1990 and 2009.

During the first treaty year, States Parties conducted 67 observation flights.

In 1978, the Confederation of Socialist Parties approved the first common European election Manifesto.

The Luxembourg Congress approved the first Statue of the Confederation of Socialist Parties in 1980.

Parties to the earlier agreement are not required to adopt the protocol ; sometimes this is made clearer by calling it an " optional protocol ", especially where many parties to the first agreement do not support the protocol.

The Association of State Green Parties ( ASGP ), a forerunner organization, first gained widespread public attention during Ralph Nader's United States presidential campaigns in 1996 and 2000.

COP10 discussed the progress made since the first Conference of the Parties 10 years ago and its future challenges, with special emphasis on climate change mitigation and adaptation.

It was the first Meeting of the Parties ( MOP-1 ) to the Kyoto Protocol since their initial meeting in Kyoto in 1997.

The permanent Secretariat of the UNCCD was established during the first Conference of the Parties ( COP 1 ) held in Rome in 1997.

The CST was established under Article 24 of the Convention as a subsidiary body of the COP, and its mandate and terms of reference were defined and adopted during the first session of the Conference of the Parties in 1997.

Following the 1991 general election, the francophone Union of Moderate Parties became the dominant party in Parliament, and Maxime Carlot Korman became the country's first francophone Prime Minister.

The first meeting of the Parties adopted decisions outlining identification requirements for different categories of LMOs ( Decision BS-I / 6, SCBD 2004 ).

It was established in a phased manner, and the first meeting of the Parties approved the transition from the pilot phase to the fully operational phase, and adopted modalities for its operations ( Decision BS-I / 3, SCBD 2004 ).

* Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity ( 2004 ) Global Biosafety-From concepts to action: Decisions adopted by the first meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.

During 15 months in office, Andropov dismissed 18 ministers, 37 first secretaries of obkoms, kraikoms and Central Committees of Communist Parties of Soviet Republics ; criminal cases on highest party and state officials were started.

As of December 7, 2011, they have cancelled what was to be their first post-reunion show in the UK at the All Tomorrow's Parties ' I'll Be Your Mirror ' festival at Alexandra Palace, London.

The PSP held in Beirut the first conference for the Socialist Arab Parties in Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and Iraq in 1951.

Parties must wait seven days after the premarital agreement is first presented for review before they sign it, but there is no requirement that this be done a certain number of days prior to the marriage.

In the name of the PSP, Jumblatt called the first convention of the Arab Socialist Parties, was held in Beirut in May 1951.

Cohn-Bendit described the European Green Party as the first stone of European citizenship, but other commentators described this new structure as a mere adaptation of the former Federation of European Green Parties.

Parties may be formed at any time prior to the caucuses on the first night of the State Conference but the earlier the better.