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Climate change is one of the greatest threats facing humankind today. Developing countries will be hardest hit because they have the least capacity to adapt. FIELD is directly involved in shaping the global response to climate change by ensuring that vulnerable countries have a voice in international negotiations, in particular through the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its Kyoto Protocol.

Small islands states are extremely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and FIELD supports the Alliance of Small Islands States (AOSIS), a coalition of developing small islands and low-lying countries, in their climate change negotiations. Our current focus is on setting new emission reduction targets for developed countries (parties to the Kyoto Protocol) at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Copenhagen, in December 2009.

FIELD is also a partner in the European Capacity Building Initiative (ecbi) - an initiative for sustained capacity building in support of international climate change negotiations.