International Agreements to Combat Climate Change

Abstract

Abstract: Climate change represents a global challenge that all countries face jointly. As a result, the international climate protection system went through three stages of negotiations to confront that challenge. The first stage culminated in the adoption of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change during the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, with the aim of stabilizing the concentration of greenhouse gases is at a level that prevents dangerous human intervention in climate change. The second stage is the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, and the third stage culminates in the adoption of a new global agreement to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, namely the Paris Agreement on Climate Change 2015, which is considered a breakthrough in the field of international environmental law. With the obligations and provisions, it contains for all states parties, especially developing ones.