United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC)

DEFINITION: A UN framework adopted during the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992. It entered into force on 21 March 1994 and has been ratified by 196 States, known as its State Parties. This Framework acknowledges the existence of human-induced climate change and says that industrialised countries should shoulder the major part of responsibility for combating it.

See also: Paris Agreement

See also: Conference of the Parties (COP)

Back to the Jargon Buster