Law-ref.org The Framework Convention on Climate Change
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... Acknowledging that change in the Earth's climate and its adverse effects are a common concern of humankind, ...
... Concerned that human activities have been substantially increasing the atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, that these increases enhance the natural greenhouse effect, and that this will result on average in an additional warming of the Earth's surface and atmosphere and may adversely affect natural ecosystems and humankind, ...