United Nations Framework Convention on climate change.

Author(s) : ONU Environnement (ex-PNUE), WMO, IUCC

Type of monograph: Booklet

Summary

This Convention was adopted in May 1992 and signed a month later at the Rio de Janeiro summit by 155 countries. It had been negociated over the past year and a half by an intergovernmental body set up by the United Nations; this body has also been responsible for organizing the Berlin conference of March 1995. The Convention includes 26 articles, including: research and systematic observation; education, training and public awareness; and a subsidiary body for scientific and technological advice.

Details

  • Original title: United Nations Framework Convention on climate change.
  • Record ID : 1995-1973
  • Languages: English
  • Subject: Regulation
  • Publication: Unep (united nations environment programme) - Switzerland/Switzerland
  • Publication date: 1994
  • Source: Source: 29 p. (15 x 21).
  • Document available for consultation in the library of the IIR headquarters only.