Analysis of the convention on climate change under the light of the biological diversity convention
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - UNFCCC, was signed on May 9, 1992 in New York, USA, and was ratified by Colombia in October 27, 1994, through Law number 164 in the same year. The main objective of the treaty is to stabilize the gaseous concentrations, which cause the green house effect in the atmosphere to levels where dangerous human influences on the climatic system may be prevented. This level should be achieved in a term sufficient to let the environment adapt to climatic change, to ensure that food production is not threatened and to allow economic development to carry on in a sustainable manner. The analysis of the UNFCCC is divided in three parts: the first makes a normative summary of this treaty under the light of the Convention on Biological Diversity. The second carries out an analysis based on the first and finally there are some recommendations to achieve more efficiency in the implementation of the two treaties. Each one of the two parts follows this order:
- Conservation of biological diversity
- Sustainable use of its elements
- Just and equitable participation in the benefits which derive from the use of genetic resources
- Cooperation
- Education and Training
- Monitoring
- Financial resources and mechanisms
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