Resolution on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change COP 3 to be held in Kyoto from 1 to 10 December 1997
The debate showed that there was cause for continuing to
work on certain issues in order to narrow the gap between the different positions.
Consequently, it had not been possible to adopt the conclusions that had been
drawn up by the presidency. This matter was to be included on the agenda for
the next sitting of the Environment Council that was scheduled for March
1997. The starting point for the Council’s discussions was the ministerial
declaration that had been adopted at the second sitting of the Conference of
the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
(FCCC), which was held in July 1996. This declaration called for more rapid
progress on the negotiations for a protocol to the FCCC, which was to set out
the relevant policies and measures, as well as the mandatory targets for
reducing greenhouse-gas emissions and for achieving significant reductions in
global emission levels by certain specified dates. The questions that had
been at the centre of the discussions were the emission reduction targets,
the ‘distribution of the burden’ between the