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Definition of unfccc in English English dictionary
- FCCC, international environmental treaty establish during the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development which took place in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro with a purpose to reduce discharge of greenhouse gas as to fight global warming
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Adopted at the June 1992 ‘Earth Summit’ in Rio de Janeiro and in force since March 1994 The Convention’s ultimate objective, and that of the Kyoto Protocol and any other instruments attached to the UNFCCC, is ‘to achieve stabilisation of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic [man-made] interference with the climate system ’
- - The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, adopted at the 1992 "Earth Summit" in Rio de Janeiro The UNFCCC launched a continuing process through which the participating countries are working to meet the goal of reducing human-induced climate change
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change