Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs; Preparation of Second U.S. Climate Action Report

摘要

In June 1992, the United States signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Pursuant to the reporting requirements under Articles 4.2 and 12 of the Convention and to proposed format guidelines later adopted by the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP) at its first session, the United States submitted the U.S. Climate Action Report (USCAR) to the UNFCCC Secretariat. At its second session, the COP to the UNFCCC agreed that the second national communications from developed country Parties would be due on April 15, 1997. The U.S. government has initiated a process to complete its submission within the given timeframe. As part of that process, we are soliciting public comment on the first USCAR, which will be used as the basis for the second submission due in April.