The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has created a number of mechanisms, and negotiated a variety of agreements, to help it achieve its objective of “stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system”. The pages in this category represent decisions taken by the UNFCCC or mechanisms under the Kyoto Protocol, which was created to further operationalize the Convention.
The objective of the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is “to assist Parties not included in Annex I in achieving sustainable development and in contributing to the ultimate objective of the Convention, and to assist Parties included in Annex I in achieving compliance with their quantified emission limitation and reduction commitments”.
The objective of the Kyoto Protocol’s Joint Implementation (JI) is to allow Annex I countries a more flexible and potentially cost-effective means to fulfill their Kyoto commitments. JI allows a country with an emission reduction commitment (i.e. Annex B Parties) to generate emission reduction units (ERUs) from domestic projects and sell them to another Annex I country, which then uses them to help meet its Kyoto target.
The Kyoto Protocol was designed to contribute to the objective of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) by allowing participating developed country Parties to establish internationally binding emission reduction targets. The Protocol includes rules for the accounting of GHG emissions from Land use, Land-use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) into such targets.
The agenda item “Policy approaches and positive incentives on issues relating to reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries; and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries” (REDD+) under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) intends for Parties to “collectively aim to slow, halt and reverse forest cover and carbon loss in developing countries, in accordance with national circumstances, consistent with the ultimate objective of the Convention”.
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