 UNFCCC - United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
192 countries around the world have joined an international treaty that sets general goals and rules for confronting climate change.
The Convention sets an ultimate objective of stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations "at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic (human induced) interference with the climate system." It states that "such a level should be achieved within a time-frame sufficient to allow ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate change, to ensure that food production is not threatened, and to enable economic development to proceed in a sustainable manner.
More on the Convention, and developments on the website of the UNFCCC.
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