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Yu, Vicente Paolo B. --- "The UN Climate Change Convention and Developing Countries: Towards Effective Implementation" [2010] ELECD 641; in Faundez, Julio; Tan, Celine (eds), "International Economic Law, Globalization and Developing Countries" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010)

Book Title: International Economic Law, Globalization and Developing Countries

Editor(s): Faundez, Julio; Tan, Celine

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781848441132

Section: Chapter 17

Section Title: The UN Climate Change Convention and Developing Countries: Towards Effective Implementation

Author(s): Yu, Vicente Paolo B.

Number of pages: 32

Extract:

17. The UN Climate Change
Convention and developing
countries: towards effective
implementation
Vicente Paolo B. Yu III*

1. INTRODUCTION

There is currently one multilateral treaty that addresses climate change.
This is the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
(hereafter UNFCCC). The structure of the UNFCCC is finely balanced.
It recognises the development needs of developing countries, as well as
the responsibilities and obligations that developed and developing coun-
tries1 have to implement in order to address such needs in the context of
climate change.
The negotiations in the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee
(INC)2 that eventually resulted in the UNFCCC took place in five ses-
sions between February 1991 and May 1992, in which more than 150
States participated. The UNFCCC was adopted and opened for signature
in May 1992 and entered into force on 21 March 1994.3


* AB, LLB, LLM; Programme Coordinator, Global Governance for
Development Programme South Centre
1 For the purposes of this chapter, the phrase `developed countries' refers to

States Parties listed in Annex I of the UNFCCC and may be used interchangeably
with the phrase `Annex I Parties'. The phrase `developing countries' refers to those
States Parties not so listed in Annex I of the UNFCCC and may be used inter-
changeably with `non-Annex I Parties'.
2 The mandate for the INC was established by the United Nations General

Assembly pursuant to Resolution No 45/212, 21 December 1990, Protection of
Global Climate for Present and Future Generations of Mankind, (UNGA, 1990).
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