Proposed new subsection on joint fulfilment:
33. Any Parties included in Annex I to the Convention that have reached an agreement to fulfil their respective commitments jointly shall be deemed to have met those commitments provided that their total combined aggregate anthropogenic carbon dioxide equivalent emissions of the greenhouse gases listed in Annex A (of the Draft Protocol) do not exceed their assigned amounts inscribed in Annex B (of the Draft Protocol).1
34. In the event of failure to achieve the total combined level of emission reductions:
(a) Each Party to that agreement shall be responsible for its own level of emissions set out in the agreement;
(b) If Parties acting jointly do so in the framework of, and together with, a regional economic integration organization which is itself a Party to this Protocol (Draft Protocol), each member State individually and together with the regional economic integration organization shall be responsible for its level of emissions.
