IPIECA attended the most recent UN climate change meeting held in May, 2016 in Bonn, Germany. As the first official meeting of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) since the Paris Agreement was made at COP21 in December, the group was tasked with prepararing for the Paris Agreement. In her opening address, Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC, acknowledged this as the time to move beyond concepts to a new reality, in a new era of collaboration.