How does the Climate Change Convention differ from the Vienna Convention? What were the major issues for the negotiating States with regard to these conventions?
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How does the Climate Change Convention differ from the Vienna Convention? What were the major issues for the negotiating States with regard to these conventions? The differences of the Climate Change Convention and the Vienna Convention Both of the Climate Change Convention and Vienna Convention concerns about the global environmental change which involves the actions about ozone layer and greenhouse effect. However, there are some differences of Climate Change Convention and the Vienna Convention. The Climate Change Convention was mainly concerning about the problems of the "Greenhouse effect" but the Vienna Convention involving the problems of the degradation of the ozone layer that do seek to phase out chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and halons, an important group of greenhouse gases. The Climate Change Convention initially commits each country to reduce climate-warming gases to the same level in 2000 as in 1990. It exists to ensure that industrialized countries will cut their Carbon Dioxide emissions...

