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Article: UNFCCC, the Kyoto protocol, and the WTO - brewing conflicts or are they mutually supportive?(United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 1992)
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- Denver Journal of International Law and Policy
- Article date:
- June 22, 2008
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I. INTRODUCTION
On December 10, 2008 Al Gore together with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (2) received the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee stated that it awarded the prize to promote peace and security:
Indications of changes in the earth's future climate must be
treated with the utmost seriousness, and with the precautionary
principle uppermost in our minds. Extensive climate changes may
alter and threaten the living conditions of much of mankind. They
may induce large-scale migration and lead to greater competition
for the earth's resources. Such changes will place particularly
heavy burdens ...