Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- PART I General instruments
- PART II Atmosphere
- 5 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution, 13 November 1979
- 5A Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution on Further Reduction of Sulphur Emissions, 14 June 1994
- 5B Non-Compliance Procedure
- 6 Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, 22 March 1985
- 6A Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, 16 September 1987
- 6B Non-Compliance Procedure
- 7 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 9 May 1992
- 7A Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 11 December 1997
- 7B Marrakech Accords (extracts)
- PART III Oceans: global
- PART IIIB Oceans: regional
- PART IV Freshwater resources
- PART V Biodiversity
- PART VIA Hazardous substances and activities: nuclear
- PART VIB Hazardous substances and activities: pesticides
- PART VIC Hazardous substances and activities: waste
- PART VII Human rights and the environment
- PART VIII War and the environment
- PART IX Trade and the environment
- PART X Environmental impact assessment and access to information
- PART XI Liability for environmental damage and breaches of environmental obligations
- PART XII The Antarctic
7 - United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 9 May 1992
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- PART I General instruments
- PART II Atmosphere
- 5 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution, 13 November 1979
- 5A Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution on Further Reduction of Sulphur Emissions, 14 June 1994
- 5B Non-Compliance Procedure
- 6 Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, 22 March 1985
- 6A Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, 16 September 1987
- 6B Non-Compliance Procedure
- 7 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 9 May 1992
- 7A Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 11 December 1997
- 7B Marrakech Accords (extracts)
- PART III Oceans: global
- PART IIIB Oceans: regional
- PART IV Freshwater resources
- PART V Biodiversity
- PART VIA Hazardous substances and activities: nuclear
- PART VIB Hazardous substances and activities: pesticides
- PART VIC Hazardous substances and activities: waste
- PART VII Human rights and the environment
- PART VIII War and the environment
- PART IX Trade and the environment
- PART X Environmental impact assessment and access to information
- PART XI Liability for environmental damage and breaches of environmental obligations
- PART XII The Antarctic
Summary
Editorial note
The ultimate objective of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change is the ‘stabilisation of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system’ (Article 2). The Convention requires all Parties, in accordance with their differentiated responsibilities and capabilities, to inter alia: formulate and implement programmes which mitigate the adverse effects of climate change and facilitate adaptation to it; promote and co-operate in developing, applying and transferring technology that reduces or prevents emissions of greenhouse gases; promote ‘sustainable management’ and conservation of sinks and reservoirs of all greenhouse gases; and take account of climate change in social, economic and environmental programmes (Article 4(1)). Specifically, developed country Parties and countries of Central and Eastern Europe (listed in Annex I) are required to take measures to limit their greenhouse gas emissions, ‘with the aim of returning individually or jointly to their 1990 levels’ by the end of the decade (2000), and enhance their sinks and reservoirs (Articles 4(2)(a) and 4(2)(b)). The Conference of the Parties (described below) reviewed the adequacy of this requirement at its first session with a view to amending it as appropriate (Article 4(2)(d)). Developed country Parties (not including Parties from Central and Eastern Europe) are required to transfer ‘new and additional’ financial resources to assist developing country Parties in meeting the compliance costs of the requirements of the Convention (Article 4(3)).
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- Documents in International Environmental Law , pp. 128 - 152Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004