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PREAMBLE     [go to this PREAMBLE]
... Recognizing that various actions to address climate change can be justified economically in their own right and can also help in solving other environmental problems, ...


ARTICLE-3: PRINCIPLES     [go to this ARTICLE]
... 5. The Parties should cooperate to promote a supportive and open international economic system that would lead to sustainable economic growth and development in all Parties, particularly developing country Parties, thus enabling them better to address the problems of climate change. Measures taken to combat climate change, including unilateral ones, should not constitute a means of arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination or a disguised restriction on international trade. ...