Common Contracts
1 similar Paris Climate Change Agreement contracts
The Paris Climate Change Agreement and afterParis Climate Change Agreement • March 21st, 2017
This differentiated approach for under- taking mitigation actions was derived from the principle of Common But Dif- ferentiated Responsibilities and Respec- tive Capabilities (CBDRRC). This position notes that industrialized coun- tries account for bulk of the accumulated stock of anthropogenic GHGs in the at- mosphere and hence should bear an im- mediate and proportionately greater responsibility for their mitigation. This differentiation, however, was the basis for the 95–0 vote of the US Senate on 6 December 1997 in favour of a resolution stating that ‘...the United States should not be a signatory to any protocol to, or other agreement regarding, the United Nations Framework Convention on Cli- mate Change of 1992, at negotiations in Kyoto in December 1997 or thereafter which would: (1) mandate new commit- ments to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions for the Annex 1 Parties, ‘unless the protocol or other agreement also mandates new specific scheduled commitments to limit or red
