UNFCCC

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an international environmental treaty adopted on 9 May 1992 and opened for signature at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro from 3 to 14 June 1992.

  • It then entered into force on 21 March 1994, after a sufficient number of countries had ratified it.

Objectives:

  • The UNFCCC’s objective is to “stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system”.
  • The framework sets non-binding limits on greenhouse gas emissions for individual countries and contains no enforcement mechanisms.
  • Instead, the framework outlines ....
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