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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.