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"UN: Framework Convention on Climate Change, 1992" [2005] ELECD 280; in Tully, Stephen (ed), "International Documents on Corporate Responsibility" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005)

Book Title: International Documents on Corporate Responsibility

Editor(s): Tully, Stephen

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781843768197

Section: Chapter 57

Section Title: UN: Framework Convention on Climate Change, 1992

Number of pages: 7

Extract:

57. UN: Framework Convention on Climate
Change, 1992

Commentary: The UNFCCC (1771 UNTS 107) seeks to stabilise greenhouse gas
emissions `at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic (human induced)
interference with the climate system'. The contributions made by corporations to
climate change is also of interest: UNCTC (1992), `Climate Change and TNCs:
Analysis and Trends', New York, UN Doc ST/CTC/112. In 1995, the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change confirmed the discernible human influ-
ence upon the global climate. As a framework agreement, the UNFCCC identifies
commitments to be augmented over time such as updated inventories of greenhouse
gas emissions. It also places the heaviest burdens upon industrialised States (Annex II
countries). Annex I countries are industrialised economies and those States under-
going economic transition. In addition to the provisions below, all governments
undertake to provide public access to information and ensure public participation in
addressing climate change and its effects (Article 6). The financial mechanism contem-
plated by Article 11 includes modalities ensuring that projects funded to address
climate change conform with accepted policies, programme priorities and eligibility
criteria. See further, UNFCCC (2002), `A Guide to the Climate Change Convention
Process', Bonn (http://unfccc.int); UNFCCC/UNEP (2002), `Climate Change
Information Kit'. For commercial perspectives, see European Roundtable of
Industrialists (ERT) (2000), `Climate Change: How Governments and Industry Can
Work Together', Brussels; ICC (2003), `Climate Change: The Business View', Paris.



Article 1: Definitions
For the purposes of this Convention:

1. `Adverse effects of climate change' means changes ...