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" Convention, stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. "
Fuel for Thought: An Environmental Strategy for the Energy Sector - Page 61
2000 - 118 pages
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Climate Change 2007 - Mitigation of Climate Change: Working Group III ...

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - 2007 - 33 pages
...Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) states as its objective the 'stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would...anthropogenic interference with the climate system', most long-term mitigation studies have focused their efforts on GHG concentration stabilization scenarios....
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The New Economic Diplomacy: Decision-making and Negotiation in International ...

Nicholas Bayne, Stephen Woolcock - 2007 - 420 pages
...establishes that the ultimate objective of cooperation in this framework is a stabilisation of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would...anthropogenic interference with the climate system. A number of important principles of modern international environmental law underpin most MEAs. These...
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Reactive Nitrogen in the Environment: Too Much Or Too Little of a Good Thing

Elizabeth Braun, United Nations Environment Programme. Division of Technology, Industry, and Economics, Woods Hole Research Center (Woods Hole, Mass.) - 2007 - 56 pages
...Convention on Climate Change. The Kyoto Protocol aims to achieve a stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would...anthropogenic interference with the climate system. Emissions of nitrous oxide along with carbon dioxide, hydrofluorocarbons, methane, perfluorocarbons,...
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Europe and Global Climate Change: Politics, Foreign Policy and Regional ...

Paul G. Harris - 2007 - 432 pages
...actively pursued its entry into force. The aim of the FCCC is to 'achieve stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would...anthropogenic interference with the climate system'. This is a simultaneously ambitious and ambiguous aim that began with unspecified targets (see Dessai...
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Climate Law in Australia

Tim Bonyhady, Peter Christoff - 2007 - 340 pages
...1994), Art 2 of which states that the objective of the Convention is 'stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would...anthropogenic interference with the climate system'. 5 For an excellent review of the scientific literature concerning the link between projected global...
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The Montreal Protocol: Celebrating 20 Years of Environmental Progress ...

Donald Kaniaru - 2007 - 370 pages
...only a first step to obtain the objective of the UNFCCC; namely, 'stabilization of greenhouse gases concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would...anthropogenic interference with the climate system'. The adopted CO2-equivalent emission reduction target is 5.8% (range of +10% to -8% for the individual...
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NGO Diplomacy: The Influence of Nongovernmental Organizations in ...

Michele M. Betsill, Elisabeth Corell - 2007 - 264 pages
...the ultimate objective of the international climate change regime as "stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would...anthropogenic interference with the climate system" (United Nations 1992e, Article 2). In addition the UNFCCC obliged industrialized countries to aim to...
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Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future

Jeff Goodell - 2007 - 357 pages
...States, signed and ratified — committed the world to a common goal: "stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would...anthropogenic interference with the climate system." The Rio treaty was a mighty blow for Big Coal. In the United States, many coal and power companies...
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Business and Environmental Policy: Corporate Interests in the American ...

Michael E. Kraft, Sheldon Kamieniecki - 2007 - 373 pages
...Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), whose primary goal is "the stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would...anthropogenic interference with the climate system." But he did so only after threatening to boycott the Rio Earth Summit if the convention contained any...
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Environmental Justice and Environmentalism: The Social Justice Challenge to ...

Ronald Sandler, Ronald D. Sandler, Ronald L. Sandler, Phaedra C. Pezzullo - 2007 - 369 pages
...countries, including the United States, commits the parties to the goal of stabilizing "greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would...anthropogenic interference with the climate system." There are many ways of reaching this objective, but any successful attempt would impose costs in foregone...
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