EPS 7 Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Earth Summit, United Nations Environment Programme, Clean Development Mechanism

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Earth And Planetary Science
• Course: EPS 7
• Professor: David Romps

Document Summary

Ipcc documents the science of global warming; also published 1st assessment in. The 1992 rio earth summit brought all nations together to hammer out a treaty to tackle global warming. The result unfccc u n f triple c. This is the mother document that has guided international climate law since 1992. Countries meet to hammer out the details of a proposed treaty: adoption. At the meeting, representatives of the nations agree to adopt the treaty, which freezes the next: signing. The leader of each country signs the treaty, sometimes at the meeting, sometimes elsewhere: ratification. Legislative bodies in each country ratify the document, making the terms of the treaty legally binding in that country. For example in the united states, treaties must be approved by 2/3 of the. Conditions for entry into force are specified in the treaty. This is typically after a certain number of countries have ratified the treaty.