Operational Clauses
MEMBER STATES ARE URGED TO AFFIRM (AND TO ACT):
(1) THAT given that most states have signed and ratified the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the obligations in the Convention, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and conserve carbon sinks, have to be discharged immediately;
(2) THAT the Framework Convention on Climate Change came into force in 1994, and that climate change is a threat to our future and is thus a legally binding document reflecting international peremptory norms;
(3) THAT there are thus provisions for states to launch cases in the ICJ against the egregious greenhouse
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