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Climate Change

4th Session of the Conference of the Parties
Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 2-13, 1998

Note: Unless otherwise indicated, documents listed are in English.

• Official site for The Fourth Session of the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP4) Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 2-13, 1998.

Remarks

• Statement by Vice President Gore (11/14/98)
• Statement by the White House Press Secretary (11/14/98)
• Press briefing by Stuart Eizenstat (English) (11/14/98)
  • Press briefing by Stuart Eizenstat (Spanish) (11/14/98)
• Press briefing by Stuart Eizenstat and Todd Stern (English) (11/12/98)
  • Press briefing by Stuart Eizenstat and Todd Stern (Spanish) (11/12/98)
• Statement by Vice President Gore (11/12/98)
• Statement by the White House Press Secretary (11/12/98)
• Remarks by Stuart Eizenstat (English) (11/12/98)
  • Remarks by Stuart Eizenstat (Spanish) (11/12/98)
• Press briefing by Stuart Eizenstat and Todd Stern (English) (11/11/98)
  • Press briefing by Stuart Eizenstat and Todd Stern (Spanish) (11/11/98)
• Statement by Stuart Eizenstat (English) (11/11/98)
  • Statement by Stuart Eizenstat (Spanish) (11/11/98)
• Press briefing by Stuart Eizenstat, Mark Hambley, and Dirk Forrister (English) (11/10/98)
  • Press briefing by Stuart Eizenstat, Mark Hambley, and Dirk Forrister (Spanish) (11/10/98)
• Press briefing by Melinda Kimble, Mark Hambley, and Dirk Forrister (English) (11/9/98)
  • Press briefing by Melinda Kimble, Mark Hambley, and Dirk Forrister (Spanish) (11/9/98)
• Remarks by Stuart Eizenstat (11/9/98)
• Press briefing by Melinda Kimble, Mark Hambley, and Dirk Forrister (English) (11/6/98)
  • Press briefing by Melinda Kimble, Mark Hambley, and Dirk Forrister (Spanish) (11/6/98)
• Press briefing by Melinda Kimble, Mark Hambley, and Dirk Forrister (English) (11/5/98)
  • Press briefing by Melinda Kimble, Mark Hambley, and Dirk Forrister (Spanish) (11/5/98)
• Press briefing by Melinda Kimble and Mark Hambley (English) (11/4/98)
  • Press briefing by Melinda Kimble and Mark Hambley (Spanish) (11/4/98)
• Intervention by Mark Hambley (11/4/98)
• Press briefing by Melinda Kimble and Mark Hambley (English) (11/2/98)
  • Press briefing by Melinda Kimble and Mark Hambley (Spanish) (11/2/98)
• Plenary Statement by Melinda Kimble (11/2/98)
• Intervention by Melinda Kimble (11/2/98)

Fact Sheets and Reference

• Fact Sheet: The Buenos Aires Climate Change Conference (December 98)
• Fact Sheet: U.S. Signs the Kyoto Protocol (English) (11/12/98)
  • Fact Sheet: U.S. Signs the Kyoto Protocol (Spanish) (11/12/98)
• Fact Sheet: U.S. Views--Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading:
  A Country's- and Company's-Eye View (English) (11/4/98)
  • Fact Sheet: U.S. Views--Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading:
    A Country's- and Company's-Eye View (Spanish) (11/4/98)
• Fact Sheet: The Kyoto Protocol (11/2/98)
• Fact Sheet: The Clean Development Mechanism (11/2/98)
• Fact Sheet: International Emissions Trading (11/2/98)
• Fact Sheet: New Climate Science Findings (11/2/98)
• Fact Sheet: U.S. Domestic Climate Change Program (11/2/98)
• White House Fact Sheet: The U.S. Country Studies Program (November 1998)
• Responses to G-77/China Questions on Flexibility Mechanisms (English) (9/10/98)
  • Responses to G-77/China Questions on Flexibility Mechanisms (Spanish) (9/10/98)

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