Commitments of States Parties Under the Climate Change Regime

Commitments of States/Parties under the Climate Change Regime.295 

The protection of the world climate or components thereof has become the object of international agreements since the end of the seventies. The most important agreements to that extent are the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution, 1979 and its Protocols, as well as the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, 1985 and its Protocol (Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, 1987). However, only the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 1992 (Framework Convention) together with the Kyoto Protocol represent a comprehensive approach to international protection of the climate. 

The Framework Convention, together with the Kyoto Protocol, constitutes an international effort to protect the global climate for present and future generations taking also into consideration the effects any climate change may have on island.s, on low-lying coastal areas, and on 

The Framework Convention and the Kyoto Protocol were discussed controversially and accordingly many of its provisions have to be understood as reflecting a compromise. The whole regime should not be considered as constituting a purely environmental system but rather as one addressing environmental concerns by taking into account social and economic developments in an integrated manner.  

I will deal with commitments states parties have entered into under the newly established regime of climate protection, and which implementation measures and which measures for a control concerning compliance are provided for. 

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