2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference

2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference

Native name	Konferencja Narodów Zjednoczonych w sprawie Zmian Klimatu, Katowice 2018
Date	2–15 December 2018 (2018-12-02 – 2018-12-15)
Location	Katowice, Poland
Also known as	COP24 (UNFCCC) CMP14 (Kyoto Protocol) CMA1-3 or 1.3 (Paris Agreement)
Organised by	Poland
Participants	UNFCCC member countries
Previous event	← Bonn 2017
Next event	Madrid 2019 →
Website	unfccc.int/katowice cop24.katowice.eu

The 2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference, more commonly referred to as the Katowice Climate Change Conference or COP24, was the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.^[1] 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 (CMP14), and the third session of the first meeting of the parties for the Paris Agreement (CMA1-3 or CMA1.3) which agreed on rules to implement the Agreement. The conference's objective was to have a full implementation of the Paris agreement.^[2]