The Financial Assistance for Environmental Purposes (No. 3) Order 1995
Citation and commencement1.
This Order may be cited as the Financial Assistance for Environmental Purposes (No. 3) Order 1995 and shall come into force on 16th May 1995.
Variation of section 153(1) of the Environmental Protection Act 19902.
“(z)
the Convention on Biological Diversity;
(aa)
the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
Department of the Environment
This Order varies section 153(1) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 to enable the Secretary of State, with the consent of the Treasury, to give financial assistance to, or for the purposes of, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the objectives of which are the conservation of biological diversity and the sustainable use of its components, and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which aims to achieve stabilisation of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a safe level.