Albert Gore shared the prize with Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
IPCC is a scientific body tasked to evaluate the risk of climate change caused by human activity. The panel was established in 1988 by the World Meterological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), two organizations of the United Nations.
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1992 - adoption of the Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) - major step in tackling global warming
Yet greenhouse gas emission (GHG) levels continued to rise.
KYOTO PROTOCOL - an international agreement linked to the existing treaty, but standing on its own. Adopted at the third Conference of the Parties to the UNFCC (COP3) in Kyoto, Japan, Dec. 11, 1997.
Major distinction - The convention encouraged developed countried to stabilize GHG emissions. The Protocol commits them to do so.
Detailed rules for implementation were adopted at COP7 in Marrakesh in 2001 and are called the "Marrakesh Accords."
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