Framework Convention on Climate Change

Framework Convention on Climate Change
(FCCC)
  An agreement opened for signature at the "Earth Summit" in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 4, 1992, which has the goal of stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent significant anthropogenically forced climate change.
  U.S. Dept. of Energy, Energy Information Administration's Energy Glossary

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