UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
CITE
- 1st international treaty
- on reducing GHG’s emissions
- on mitigating global warming
- near universal membership
- 197 countries
- Enforced ➡️ 1994
- Secretariat ➡️ Bonn, Germany
- CoP ➡️ highest decision making body
- Conference of Parties
- just a convention
- non-legally binding
Ultimate Aim
- preventing dangerous human interference with the climate system
Ultimate Objective
- to stabilize GHG concentrations
- at a level ➡️ preventing dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system