The ultimate decision-making body of the Convention
is the Conference of the Parties (COP), which meets every year to review the implementation of the Convention.
The COP adopts COP decisions and resolutions, published in reports of the COP.
Successive decisions taken by the COP make up a detailed set of rules for practical and effective implementation of the
Convention. The Kyoto Protocol supplements and strengthens the Convention and provides a further framework for action.
The Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP) adopts CMP decisions and resolutions on the implementation of the provisions of the Kyoto Protocol, published in reports of the CMP.
Decision 12/CP.17ArabicChineseEnglishEspañolFrançaisRussian Guidance on systems for providing information on how safeguards are addressed and respected and modalities relating to forest reference emission levels and forest reference levels as referred to in decision 1/CP.16
Conference of the Parties - Sixteenth Session
Decision 1/CP.16ArabicChineseEnglishEspañolFrançaisRussian The Cancun Agreements: Outcome of the work of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention
Decision 7/CP.16ArabicChineseEnglishEspañolFrançaisRussian Progress in, and ways to enhance, the implementation of the amended New Delhi work programme on Article 6 of the Convention
Resolution 1/CP.16ArabicChineseEnglishEspañolFrançaisRussian Expression of gratitude to the Government of the United Mexican States, the State of Quintana Roo and the people of the city of Cancun
