By way of this letter to the US State Department, the Center for Biological Diversity delivers its Notice of Intent to File Suit with Respect to the Overdue Seventh U.S. Climate Action Report
as Required under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Addressed to Secretary Tillerson, the letter states that it is the Center’s notice of “intent to sue the State Department for failure to issue the Seventh U.S. Climate Action Report by January 1, 2018, as mandated under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( “UNFCCC” or “the Convention” ).”

The Center cites the passage of the Global Climate Protection Act of 1987 as the instrument that designated the State Department as the lead agency for U.S. compliance.

Read the full letter here: Tillerson Letter from UN

The United States ratified the with the advice and consent of the Senate (Treaty Document 102-38, October 7, 1992). The UNFCCC entered into force in 1994. Update 2016