Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of boxes
- Foreword by Joke Waller Hunter, Executive Secretary, FCCC
- Preface and acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Overview
- 3 Regime participants
- 4 Objective and principles
- 5 Mitigation commitments
- 6 Flexibility mechanisms
- 7 Research, systematic observation, education, training and public awareness
- 8 Adaptation
- 9 Impacts of response measures
- 10 Finance, technology and capacity-building
- 11 Reporting and review
- 12 Compliance
- 13 Institutions
- 14 The negotiation process
- 15 Scientific and technical input
- 16 Administering the regime
- 17 Linkages
- 18 Evolution of the regime
- 19 Conclusion: taking stock and moving forward
- Appendix I List of Parties, their groups and key statistics
- Appendix II Annex I Party fact sheets: emissions, targets and projections for Annex I Parties and groupings
- Appendix III Table of Articles, issues and COP Decisions
- Bibliography
- Index
13 - Institutions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of boxes
- Foreword by Joke Waller Hunter, Executive Secretary, FCCC
- Preface and acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Overview
- 3 Regime participants
- 4 Objective and principles
- 5 Mitigation commitments
- 6 Flexibility mechanisms
- 7 Research, systematic observation, education, training and public awareness
- 8 Adaptation
- 9 Impacts of response measures
- 10 Finance, technology and capacity-building
- 11 Reporting and review
- 12 Compliance
- 13 Institutions
- 14 The negotiation process
- 15 Scientific and technical input
- 16 Administering the regime
- 17 Linkages
- 18 Evolution of the regime
- 19 Conclusion: taking stock and moving forward
- Appendix I List of Parties, their groups and key statistics
- Appendix II Annex I Party fact sheets: emissions, targets and projections for Annex I Parties and groupings
- Appendix III Table of Articles, issues and COP Decisions
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Introduction
International oversight of the implementation and development of treaty rules takes places through a set of institutions established by the climate change regime. The Conference of the Parties, the supreme body of the Convention, sits at the apex. It is supported by two subsidiary bodies (SBs): the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) and the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI). Influenced by concerns of sovereignty and institutional economy, Parties decided that the COP would serve as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol – the COP/MOP – while the two subsidiary bodies would also serve the Protocol. A striking feature of the climate change regime since the adoption of the Marrakesh Accords has been the development of an increasingly dense institutional network, with the designation of several specialised bodies with limited membership mandated to work on specific issues under both the Convention and the Kyoto Protocol. This chapter explains the institutions of the climate change regime (illustrated in figures 13.1 (Convention) and 13.2 (Kyoto Protocol)), including their composition, mandates, modus operandi, and likely operation under the Kyoto Protocol. In some cases, notably the specialised bodies, readers are referred to a more detailed discussion in other chapters of this book. It should be noted that the Secretariat, another body established by the Convention, plays a vitally important role in ensuring the smooth functioning of the regime's institutional machinery as discussed in this chapter 15.
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- The International Climate Change RegimeA Guide to Rules, Institutions and Procedures, pp. 398 - 430Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004