Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 February 2017
On September 8, 1992, President George Bush transmitted to the Senate for advice and consent to ratification the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, adopted at New York on May 9, 1992, by the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for a Framework Convention on Climate Change and signed on behalf of the United States at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro on June 12, 1992.
page no 103 note 1 For the text, see S. Treaty Doc. NO. 38, 102d Cong., 2d Sess. 1 (1992), reprinted in 31 ILM 849 (1992).
page no 104 note 2 S. Treaty Doc. NO. 38, supra note 1, at V–VI.
page no 107 note 3 Id. at VI–XII. See also S. Exec. Rep. No. 55, 102d Cong., 2d Sess. (1992).
page no 108 note 4 138 Cong. Rec. SI7,156 (daily ed. Oct. 7, 1992).
page no 108 note 1 See 86 AJIL 354 (1992).
page no 108 note 2 See id. at 799. The Protocol is referred to hereinafter as the May 23, 1992 Protocol.
page no 111 note 3 Dept. of State File No. P92 0135–1208/1212; 138 Cong. Rec. S15.955–56 (daily ed. Oct. 1, 1992).