...taking the lead in modifying longer-term trends in anthropogenic emissions consistent with the objective forces of Members of the United Nations. Article 43...United Nations, in order to contribute to the mai of carbon dioxide and other green house gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol would contribute...

...targets for any country. 6 Article 4 of the agreement says that developed country parties recognize "that the return by the end of the present decade to earlier levels of anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases" would be desirable. It also urges parties to devise policies...

...economies in transition). Article 4.2(a) requires them to take action in the recognition of the fact that: the return by the end of the present decade to earlier levels of anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol would contribute...

...limitation at a non-specified level. The tautological sentence with its non-prescriptive formulation evoking the 'return by the end of the present decade to earlier levels of anthropogenic emissions' permitted the EC to save face, as it had been negotiating for the stabilization of carbon dioxide emissions...

...taking the lead in modifying longer-term trends in anthropogenic emissions consistent with the objective of the Convention, recognizing that the return by...decade to earlier levels of anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol would contribute...