[20191125]IF10397_国际气候变化援助：2009-2019财年预算授权.pdf

https:/crsreports.congress.gov Updated November 25, 2019International Climate Change Assistance: Budget Authority, FY2009-FY2019The United States committed to providing financial assistance to developing countries for climate-change-related activities through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The United States ratified the UNFCCC in 1992 with the advice and consent of the Senate (U.S. Treaty Number: 102-38). Among the obligations outlined in Article 4 of the UNFCCC, higher-income Parties (i.e., those listed in Annex II of the Convention, which were members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in 1992) sought to provide unspecified amounts of “financial resources, including for the transfer of technology, needed by developing countries to meet the agreed full incremental costs of implementing measures” to meet their general commitments under the UNFCCC. Further, “the implementation of these commitments shall take into account the need for adequacy and predictability in the flow of funds and the importance of appropriate burden sharing among the developed country Parties.” Over the past several decades, and to varying degrees