 | Richard N. Gardner - 1992 - 100 pages
...Convention and to implement its provisions, the Parties shall be guided, inter olio, by the following: 1. The Parties should protect the climate system for...differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities. Accord74 ingly, the developed country Parties should take the lead In combating climate change and... | |
 | Academie de Droit International de la Haye - 1994 - 502 pages
...link between environment and development. Thus, the Convention requires parties to protect the climate "on the basis of equity" and "in accordance with their...differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities . . .". It distinguishes between developed nations, countries in transition from socialism and the... | |
 | Irving M. Mintzer, J. Amber Leonard - 1994 - 412 pages
...Precautionary Principle. The Precautionary Principle is articulated in the following terms in Article 3(1): The Parties should protect the climate system for the benefit of present and future generations . . . [Developed country Parties should take the lead in combating climate change . . .... | |
 | United Nations Environment Programme - 1995 - 426 pages
...Change Convention is explicit in stating that "[t]he Parties should protect the climate system ... on the basis of equity and in accordance with their...differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities." Each Contracting Party to the Biological Diversity Convention undertakes to provide financial support... | |
 | Hoe-sŏng Yi, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Working Group III. - 1996 - 462 pages
...the Annex I (ie, developed) countries to take the lead in responding to the threat of climate change "on the basis of equity and in accordance with their...differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities." Some have argued in addition that because the industrialized countries have been the major contributors... | |
 | Joyeeta Gupta - 1997 - 274 pages
...recognizes the need for not only intergenerational, but also intragenerational equity. It states that: "The Parties should protect the climate system for...of present and future generations of humankind..." (Article 3.1) and that "The parties have a right to, and should, promote sustainable development ...... | |
 | Alexandre Kiss, Dinah Shelton - 1997 - 670 pages
...Convention and to implement its provisions, the Parties shall be guided, inter alia, by the following: 1. The Parties should protect the climate system for the benefit of present and future generations of human kind, on the basis of equity and in accordance with their common but differentiated responsibilities... | |
 | Catrinus J. Jepma, Mohan Munasinghe - 1997 - 354 pages
...to equity in the UNFCCC's substantive provisions (UNFCCC 1992). To begin with, Article 3.1 states, "The Parties should protect the climate system for...respective capabilities. Accordingly, the developed countrv Parties should take the lead in combating climate change and the adverse effects thereof."... | |
 | Martin A. Spitzer - 1999 - 171 pages
...As a first step, both developed and developing nations pledged to take steps to protect the climate "on the basis of equity and in accordance with their...differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities." 7 Industrialized nations also voluntarily aimed to return their level of greenhouse gas emissions in... | |
 | Norman J. Vig, Regina S. Axelrod - 1999 - 372 pages
...and is applicable in the Climate Change convention to require parties to protect the climate system "on the basis of equity and in accordance with their...but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities."29 The principle of common but differentiated responsibility includes two important elements.... | |
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The Parties should protect the climate system for the benefit of present and future generations of humankind, on the basis of equity and in accordance with their common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities. 
