COP 1: Second Municipal Leaders Summit on Climate Change, 27-29 March 1995, Berlin, Germany
The Second Municipal Leaders' Summit on Climate Change coincided with the first meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held in Berlin in March 1995. This allowed municipal leaders the opportunity to present a communiqué to the COP.
The communiqué recommended that the COP create a local authority subsidiary body to support local authority efforts to help UNFCCC signatories comply with the treaty. The communiqué was supported by 150 local authorities and municipal organisations from more than 50 countries, which represented more than 250 million people worldwide.
More information: The Communiqué to the COP