International Action
UN Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol
Evidence of human interference with the climate first emerged in 1979 at the First World Climate Conference. As public concern over environmental issues continued to increase during the 1980s, governments grew progressively more aware of climate issues. In 1998, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 43/53, proposed by the government of Malta, urging the "protection of global climate for present and future generations of mankind." During the same year, the governing bodies of the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations General Environment Program created a new body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), to marshal and assess…
