Prawne problemy umów międzynarodowych z zakresu ochrony klimatu
Legal Problems of International Agreements in the Field of Climate Protection

Summary/Abstract: In 1992 during the „Earth Summit” Framework Convention on Climate Change in Riode Janeiro, known as the Climate Convention, the first international treaty entirely devotedto climate protection against changes on Earth was signed. Its aim was to achieve thestabilization of anthropogenic greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and the adaptation toclimate change. For that purpose, the common but differentiated responsibilities of statesfor problems associated with climate have changed as well as several procedural rulesin this regard have been introduced in order to protect the environment for the benefitof present and future generations. The Kyoto Protocol of 1997, which was executive inits nature to the Climate Convention, strengthened the role of law in combating climatechanges by introducing economic mechanisms, such as the right to greenhouse gas emissionstrading. At the conference in Paris in 2015, the Parties of the Climate ConventionCOP-21 adopted a draft of the Climate Agreement signed by 195 countries, which shall replace the Kyoto Protocol in 2020. Its main aim is to limit the increase of global warmingto 2 Celsius degrees by the end of the twenty-first century by, inter alia, national contributionsconcerning the reduction and absorption of CO2. Poland participated in the COP-21and worked actively in favor of the absorption of CO2 by forests.

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