...contributions to the enhancement of the greenhouse effect' (Preamble, paragraph 18). 'Accordingly, the developed country Parties should take the lead...combating climate change and the adverse effects thereof (Art. 3.1). Article 4 hence has differentiated commitments for industrialized countries and developing...

...accordance with their common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities. Accordingly, the developed country parties should take the lead...combating climate change and the adverse effects thereof. The assumption of differentiated responsibilities by different groupings of countries is a consistent...

...but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities. Accordingly, the developed countrv Parties should take the lead in combating climate change and the adverse effects thereof." Other equity-related principles emphasized in Article 3 include (a) the right to promote sustainable...

...accordance with their common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities. Accordingly, the developed country Parties should take the lead...especially those that are particularly vulnerable to the advene effects of climate change, and of those Parties, especially developing country Panics, that...

...accordance with their common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities. Accordingly, the developed country Parties should take the lead...combating climate change and the adverse effects thereof (Article 3. 1FCCC). Developing Country Participation 237 of capacities to adapt to a changing climate.26...

...accordance with [parties'] common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities"; that "the developed country Parties should take the lead...combating climate change and the adverse effects thereof"; and that the "specific needs and special circumstances of developing country Parties . . . should be...

...enshrined in all of the agreements leading to Kyoto. The 1992 UNFCCC stated that 'the developed countries should take the lead in combating climate change and the adverse effects thereof, a principle re-affirmed in the 1995 Berlin Mandate that set the world on the road to Kyoto in November...

...accordance with their common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities. Accordingly, the developed country Parties should take the lead...combating climate change and the adverse effects thereof.' The text offers no explicit justification, but it is not difficult to identify four different reasons...

...participating developing countries. 8. Article 3, paragraph 1, of the UNFCCC states, in part, that "the developed country Parties should take the lead...combating climate change and the adverse effects thereof." The rationale is contained in the UNFCCC's preamble, which states, in part, that "the largest share...

...accordance with their common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities. Accordingly, the developed country Parties should take the lead...combating climate change and the adverse effects thereof (Art. 4). The notion of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities has...