More than six thousand delegates from around the world opened a United Nations conference on climate change in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi on Monday.
Kenyan Vice President Moody Awori headed off the climate conference with an opening speech.
 "Disaster such as droughts and famine are as a result of climate change which we must boldly face and accept as a challenge to all of us."
Over the next two weeks, the delegates will get a closed-door preview of the latest scientific findings on our warming planet, which will be published next year in a comprehensive UN assessment by the world's leading climate scientists.
Yvo De Boer, Executive Secretary of the UN Climate Change Secretariat, says the consequences of climate change will be the focus of the meeting.
"Two things are going to be important at this conference. The first is that the conference is going to deal with a number of issues that are of great concern to the developing countries. Secondly this meeting will also be discussing the future of the climate change regime, what needs to happen in the period after 2012 and how can we design a long term climate regime."
Climate scientists say that world temperatures in the past 30 years had risen to levels not seen in at least 12 thousand years.
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Director: Liu Chi