Lebanon has ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in December 1994 through Law No. 359 dated 1/8/94, and acceded to the Kyoto Protocol in November 2006 by virtue of Law 738. Under phase I of the Climate Change Project, and pursuant to Article 4.1 of the Convention, Lebanon has prepared and submitted to the secretariat of the convention Lebanon’s Initial National Communication (INC) report in 1999, through funding from the Global Environment Facility (GEF), management of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and execution by the Ministry of Environment (MoE).

United Nations Development Program and the Ministry of Environment have mobilized a top–up funding from the Global Environment Facility, to carry out Phase II of the climate change enabling activity project. The project, started in November 2001 and with duration of one year, has set several objectives mainly related to capacity building, training, raising awareness, and fund mobilization

In 2007, the Ministry of Environment, with funding from the GEF, and in cooperation with the UNDP, has launched the enabling activities for the preparation of Lebanon’s Second National Communication (SNC) to the UNFCCC project. The project is an update of the INC and was completed in the beginning of the 2011.