Every year, countries who have joined the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meet to measure progress and negotiate multilateral responses to climate change. Today there are 198 Parties to the Convention. The UNFCCC is a multilateral treaty adopted in 1992 � shortly after the first assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1990 � to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations "at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic (human-induced) interference with the climate system.�