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Where did “common but differentiated responsibilities” come from?

The second in a series of posts on common but differentiated responsibilities. You can read the first here. Concerns about the effect that greenhouse gases were having on the climate led the UN General Assembly to endorse the creation of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change in 1988. It published its first report in 1990 which concluded that: emissions resulting from human activities are substantially … Continue reading Where did “common but differentiated responsibilities” come from?

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What on earth are “common but differentiated responsibilities”?

The first of series of posts exploring the concept of common but differentiated responsibilities. “Common but differentiated responsibilities”, often abbreviated as CBDR (or even CBDRRC for “common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities”) , is a phrase that was embedded in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) which was launched at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. Article 3 … Continue reading What on earth are “common but differentiated responsibilities”?

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