Conference Programme

Conference Programme | COP 15

COP 15 is being held in conjunction with the fifth session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP), the thirty-first sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) and the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI), the tenth session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP) and the eighth session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA).

Below you will find quick access to the conference programmes at COP 15/CMP 5.

Conference Programme

Provisional agendas and annotations

Documents

Provisional agendas and annotations

COP 15 - Conference of the Parties
The supreme body of the Convention. It currently meets once a year to review the Convention's progress. The word "conference" is not used here in the sense of "meeting" but rather of "association," which explains the seemingly redundant expression "fourth session of the Conference of the Parties."
FCCC/CP/2009/1
FCCC/CP/2009/1/Add.1

CMP 5 - Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol
The Convention’s supreme body is the COP, which serves as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol. The sessions of the COP and the CMP are held during the same period to reduce costs and improve coordination between the Convention and the Protocol.
FCCC/KP/CMP/2009/1
FCCC/KP/CMP/2009/1/Add.1

SBI 31 - Subsidiary Body for Implementation
The SBI makes recommendations on policy and implementation issues to the COP and, if requested, to other bodies.
FCCC/SBI/2009/9

SBSTA 31 - Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice
The SBSTA serves as a link between information and assessments provided by expert sources (such as the IPCC) and the COP, which focuses on setting policy.
FCCC/SBSTA/2009/4

AWG-KP 10 - Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol
The AWG-KP was established by Parties to the Protocol in Montreal in 2005 to consider futher commitments of industrialized countries under the Kyoto Protocol for the period beyond 2012, and is set to complete its work in Copenhagen in 2009.
FCCC/KP/AWG/2009/15
More information on the tenth session of the AWG-KP is available here.

AWG-LCA 8 - Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention
The AWG-LCA was established in Bali in 2007 to conduct negotiations on a strengthened international deal on climate change, set to be concluded in Copenhagen in 2009.
NEW! The scenario note on the eighth session of the AWG-LCA is now available as document
FCCC/AWGLCA/2009/16.
NEW! The report of the AWG-LCA on its seventh session including an annex which compiles the texts arising out of the session is now available as document FCCC/AWGLCA/2009/14.
Provisional agenda and annotations: FCCC/AWGLCA/2009/15
More information on the eighth session of the AWG-LCA is available here.

Daily Programme

The Daily Programme is the official UNFCCC guide to each day's official meetings, side events and press briefings. It also provides an overview of the status of the previous day's negotiations. Hard copies will be available from the Documents Distribution area each morning before the start of the day's meetings. The web version will contain links to the documents listed under each agenda item, thus serving as a fast locator of the official documents needed for each day.