Tại Kyoto, ngành công nghiệp xuất hiện nhiều hơn chia hơn trong các cuộc đàm phán Công ước biến đổi khí hậu. BP và Shell Hoàng gia / Hà Lan, bởi vì trữ lượng khí đốt của họ, những nỗ lực hỗ trợ để hạn chế phát thải khí gây hiệu ứng nhà kính. | Climate Change 361 and technical concerns that is protection against potential abuse of baselines in developing countries were pushed aside. At Kyoto the industry appeared even more divided than during the Climate Change Convention negotiations. The BP and the Royal Dutch Shell because of their gas reserves supported efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Other energy companies however such as Exxon Mobil were still putting pressure to resist firm commitments. Other sectors of the economy such as the insurance sector potentially adversely affected by abrupt weather phenomena gas companies and even some auto manufacturers saw more benefits in establishing targets and timetables than in procrastinating further the adoption of regulatory . Legislative Instruments . Convention on Climate Change Obligations The Climate Change Convention is a framework convention. Its purpose is to set the general tone for the future climate change discussions and to compromise in a single text the often irreconcilable interests and ideologies of state parties. Because of this reality - a reality for every framework convention - the convention straddles the world of firm commitments and vague hortatory articulations. Article 4 surprisingly contains in its title the word commitment. Article 4 is overall a procedural article but it is not deprived of substance. It provides for instance that state parties must establish national inventories for greenhouse gas emissions and removals by sinks by using comparable The inclusion of the term comparable methodologies was subject to controversy during the negotiations as developing countries were aware of not having at their disposal methodologies comparable with methodologies available in developed countries. Other provisions include the obligation of parties to formulate implement and publish national and regional programs designed to mitigate climate change and climate change effects 118 to promote the .
