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The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (discussed in the October 24, 1997 Scout Report) Third Conference of the Parties (COP-3) takes place in Kyoto, Japan from December 1-10, 1997. The Official Site features the full text of the Convention (with chronological and alphabetical listing of ratifiers in the last five years), official documents in five languages from all...

The Sixth session, Part two of the Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Convention (COP 6.2) ended Friday in Bonn. Thirty-seven of the fifty-five countries needed to make the Kyoto Protocol binding have ratified the agreement. At COP 6, a number of decisions were made that "set out the rulebook by which governments will cooperate on making the Kyoto Protocol's institutions and...

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has assembled a collection of resources in conjunction with the third United Nations Framework Conference on Climate Change (UNFCC) in Kyoto, Japan. The main objective of the site is to help visitors "understand how economic, environmental, social and development policies can best reinforce each other" to achieve the goal of...