Outcomes of the Fourth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Climate Buenos Aires,2 – 13 November 1998

The wording of all mentioned official UN documents can be found on the website of the UNFCCC Secretariat; www.unfccc.de.

Annex I of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change includes the western industrialised countries and countries in transition

For a detailed record of the statements of delegations and NGOs at COP-4 see Earth Negotiations Bulletin, www.iisd.ca.

See Jacoby H. D. Prinn R. G. Schmalensee R. : Kyoto's Unfinished Business, in: Foreign Affairs, July/August, 1998.

See Boehmer-Christiansen S.A. , Climate Change and the World Bank: Opportunities for Global Governance, Energy & Environment, vol. 10, no. 1., p.

One example is the Canadian utility Ontario Hydro which bought certificates worth 10.000 t of CO₂ for the price of 3 US $ per ton from US based Southern California Edison. Ontario Hydro intends to partly offset its additional emmissions due to the shutdown of several nuclear power plants. The certificates were generated with efficiency improvements at Southern California's hard-coal fired power plant of Mohave and registered at the US Department of Energy.

The emissions reductions refer to a basket of 6 gases: CO₂, CH₄, N₂₀, PFC, HFC and SEF6, weighted by their global warming potentials.