17 May 1996

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UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE

Ad Hoc Group on the Berlin Mandate

Fourth session

Geneva, 9-16 July 1996



IMPLEMENTATION OF THE BERLIN MANDATE

 

Proposals from Parties

 

Note by the secretariat






The AGBM, at its third session, requested the secretariat to prepare, for consideration at the fourth session, a compilation of proposals made to date or received by the secretariat no later than 15 April 1996 pertaining to the treatment of quantified emission limitation and reduction objectives and policies and measures in a protocol or another legal instrument; continuing to advance the implementation of Article 4.1; and possible features of a protocol or another legal instrument (FCCC/AGBM/1996/5, para. 10).

In accordance with the procedure for miscellaneous documents these submissions are attached and are reproduced in the language(s) in which they were received and without formal editing.



FCCC/AGBM/1996/MISC.2

GE.96-



CONTENTS




Paper No. Page



1. Trinidad and Tobago (on behalf of the Alliance of Small 3

Island States (AOSIS))

Draft protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention

on Climate Change on Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction

(Letter dated 20 September 1994)

 

2. Germany 13

Elements for a comprehensive protocol to the UNFCCC

(Letter dated 22 September 1994)

3. Spain (on behalf of the European Community) 18

EU proposal on the structure of a protocol or another legal

instrument

(Submission of 30 October 1995)

 

4. Russian Federation 26

Possible elements of a protocol to the Framework Convention

on Climate Change

(Submission of 15 January 1996)

 

5. Germany 30

(Submission of 26 March 1996)

6. Saudi Arabia 34

Proposals

(Letter dated 10 April 1996)

7. United Kingdom 37

Proposal on quantified emission limitation and reduction

objectives for inclusion in a protocol or another legal instrument

(Letter dated 16 April 1996)