...'The ultimate objective of this Convention ... is to achieve . . . stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would...anthropogenic interference with the climate system' (Article 2); (2) 'The Parties should protect the climate system for the benefit of present and future...

...signatories to the UNFCCC. The ultimate objective of the UNFCCC is to achieve stabilisation of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would...anthropogenic interference with the climate system. The most relevant commitments, for our purposes, are: to develop, update, publish and make available...

...FCCC states that its ultimate objective is to "achieve stabilization of greenhouse gas concentration in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous...anthropogenic interference with the climate system." Nowhere, in either the FCCC or in the Kyoto Protocol, is there any statement of what greenhouse gas...

...(UNFCCC), which was concluded at Rio, has as its ultimate objective "[the] stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would...dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system."1 The Convention adds that the level envisaged should be achieved within a time frame sufficient...

...Development (Rio de Janeiro, 1992). The ultimate objective of the UNFCCC is to stabilise GHG emissions at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. The most important climate agreement negotiated in the UNFCCC so far is the Kyoto Protocol US Geological...

...the United States — were signatories. It declared as its goal the stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that "would prevent dangerous anthropogenic (human-caused) interference -with the climate system." The Kyoto Protocol set reduction targets for...

...defines the ultimate objective of the Convention as ". . .to achieve. . .stabilisation of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would...climate system. Such a level should be achieved within a time-frame sufficient to allow ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate change, to ensure that food...

...achieve, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Convention, stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would...anthropogenic interference with the climate system (emphasis added). Kyoto, Rio's successor, held the same goal. The problem with this goal is twofold....

...were to be worked out in subsequent negotiations. The FCCC aims for "stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would...anthropogenic interference with the climate system. This level should be achieved within a time-frame sufficient to allow ecosystems to adapt naturally...

...188 nations including the USA and Russia, is to achieve "a stabilisation of greenhouse gases (GHG) concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would...anthropogenic interference with the climate system". However the UNFCCC did not indicate a specific level of stabilisation. This is an essential point in...