(). The landmark international treaty unveiled at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED, also known as the "Rio Summit"), in June 1992. The FCCC commits signatory countries to stabilize anthropogenic (i.e., human-induced) greenhouse gas emissions to 'levels that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system'. The FCCC also requires that all signatory parties develop and update national inventories of anthropogenic emissions of all greenhouse gases not otherwise controlled by the Montreal Protocol. Out of 155 countries that have ratified this accord, the U.S. was the first industrialized nation to do so.
An agreement opened for signature at the "Earth Summit" in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 4, 1992, which has the goal of stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent significant anthropogenically forced climate change. See Climate change.
A result of the 1992 Earth Summit, this international treaty was a start in negotiating agreements on steps to prevent future catastrophic climate change.
FCCC, signed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. It called for the stabilization of greenhouses gas emissions to prevent dangerous interference with the natural climatic forces.
The pact signed by 166 nations in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 to work to limit harmful human interference with the climate.
UK signed Framework convention at Rio in 1992 and, along with other developed countries, agreed to return its emissions of greenhouse gases to 1990 levels by 2000 - a necessary first step.
The international treaty signed at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) at Rio in 1992. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) commits signatory countries to stabilize anthropogenic (i.e., human-induced) greenhouse gas concentrations to 'levels that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system'. The FCCC also requires that all signatory Parties develop and update national inventories of anthropogenic emissions of all greenhouse gases not otherwise controlled by the Montreal Protocol.
United Nations convention to address climate change, signed by more than 150 countries at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992. Canada became the eighth country to ratify the Convention, which entered into force on March 21, 1994, thereby committing to work toward stabilizing GHG emissions at 1990 levels by the year 2000.
the agreement signed by 154 countries, including Canada, at the Earth Summit in Rio in June 1992, under which climate change is discussed globally. Developed countries agreed to aim to reduce emissions to 1990 levels by 2000. The FCCC established a framework of general principles and institutions and set up a process through which governments can meet regularly.
An international agreement signed at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro outlining policy measures for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and calling on signatories from developed countries to reduce CO2 emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000. The convention was signed by all U.N. members and has been ratified by 151 countries; it came into force in 1994. The first Conference of the Parties was held in Berlin in April 1995.
