List established under the UNFCCC of industrialised countries, including economies in transition, taking on specific emissions commitments

Annex I to the UNFCCC contains a list of industrialized country Parties that have special commitments to limit their emissions of greenhouse gases under the Convention (i.e. the 24 original OECD countries, the EC and 11 countries undergoing the process of transition to a market economy).

Parties: Industrialized countries belonging to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and countries designated as Economies in Transition under the Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), that pledged to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000.

Industrialized countries that, as parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change, pledged to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2000 to 1990 levels. Annex I Parties consist of countries belonging to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and countries designated as Economies-in-Transition. The 40 Annex I countries are: the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, the 15 members of the European Union, Switzerland, Monaco, Liechtenstein, Norway, Iceland, Turkey and almost all of the European ex-Soviet bloc: the three Baltic states, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria, Belarus, Ukraine and Russia. (, )