United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
May 9, 1992, New York City
- Member
- Member (Annex I)
- Member (Annex I and II)
- Observer status
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( english United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC) is an international environmental agreement with the aim of preventing dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system and to slow down global warming and its consequences to mitigate (Article 2). At the same time this term also includes the Secretariat, which coordinates the implementation of the Convention and has its headquarters in Bonn. The main obligation of the Convention is that all contractors have to publish regular reports in which facts must be included on the current greenhouse gas emissions and trends.
The UNFCCC was adopted in New York City on 9 May 1992 and in the same year at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED ) in Rio de Janeiro signed by 154 countries. She joined two years later, on 21 March 1994, in force.
The 194 Parties to the Convention meet annually to conferences, the UN Climate Change Conference (also called " Earth Summit " ), on which is struggling for concrete action on climate change. The best known of these conferences took place in 1997 in Kyoto Japan and developed the Kyoto Protocol, which called among other things, emissions trading to life. The climate summit are also the Conferences of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, since this came into force on 16 February 2005.
For the forestry policy results from the Kyoto Protocol, the possibility of involving forests as carbon sinks in the national balance sheet. Furthermore, within the framework of Joint Implementation (Joint Implementation ) and the mechanism for clean development (CDM ) are generated by greenhouse gases mission -reducing measures certificates, for example through the establishment of mechanical-biological waste treatment plants and afforestation in developing countries to the CO2 balance of an industrialized country to improve.