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The authors use a proportional hazards framework to investigate the impact
of various country characteristics on the duration of time taken to ratify
the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC). The most
significant findings are that the conditional probability of ratification i
s positively related to total CO2 emissions and the presence of civil liber
ties. The finding for emissions indicates that large, polluting countries w
ere under great political pressure to ratify the FCCC. The latter finding i
s consistent with earlier research that found that democratic freedoms rais
ed the probability of signing the Montreal Protocol.