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The legal basis for the Kyoto process was established in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), adopted on 9 May 1992 in New York. Negotiated over five sessions within 15 months, the Convention was opened for signature at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992.1 Within one year, it was signed by 165 countries and the European Community. Three months after the 50th ratification had been submitted, the Convention entered into force on 21 March 1994. By the time of the Kyoto conference in December 1997, 167 States and the European Community were Parties to the international regime on climate change established by the Convention.
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Oberthür, S., Ott, H.E. (1999). The Framework Convention on Climate Change: The Legal Basis of International Action. In: The Kyoto Protocol. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03925-0_3
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