UNFCCC

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is the 1992 treaty that created the global climate-governance architecture, with the annual Conference of the Parties and the later Kyoto Protocol and Paris Agreement built under it. Article 2.2 of the Kyoto Protocol assigned international shipping emissions to the IMO rather than to national inventories, the division of labor that still places maritime decarbonization with the IMO while the UNFCCC sets the overall temperature goals.