The Environmental Integrity Group (EIG) is a negotiation group consisting of 6 parties to the UNFCCC. When it was formed in 2000, it only consisted of Switzerland, Korea, and Mexico.

History

The Environmental Integrity Group was initiated by Switzerland during the negotiations of the

Kyoto Protocol The Kyoto Protocol was an international treaty which extended the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that commits state parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, based on the scientific consensus that (part ...

, where only party groups were allowed to negotiate. Switzerland was not part of any group and they did not want to join the Umbrella Group. So Switzerland declared to form the EIG and invited other independent parties to join.

Joint Submissions

* 2016 on matters of the Global Stock Take (GST)

Members

* 2000 (founding member) * 2000 (founding member) * 2000 (founding member) * 20?? * 20?? * 2017

Literature and References

Literature

Emily Laur: ''Who is the Environmental Integrity Group?'', In: ''Digital Lotus'': Thursday, March 24, 2016.
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