Contraction and Convergence Religious

The UNFCCC has adopted a new logo [above left]. It was officially launched on 24th October 2011. It replaces the one [above right] that has been in use since 1997.

The new logo was approved by the Executive Secretariat and cleared with the Office of Legal Affairs, United Nations. It was formally submitted to and registered by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to be the new logo of the UNFCCC and its Kyoto Protocol.

Some have argued that this looks remarkably like a C&C logo. In 2003 the UNFCCC Executive said the objective of the UNFCCC,“inevitably requires ‘Contraction and Convergence’." Perhaps that's why it looks like this.