The COP in its decision 1/CP.18, paragraphs 34–38, requested the SBSTA and the SBI, at their thirty-eighth sessions, to jointly initiate a process with the aim of addressing the following matters:

(a). The need to improve the coordination of support for the implementation of the activities referred to in decision 1/CP.16, paragraph 70;

(b). To provide adequate and predictable support, including financial resources and technical and technological support, to developing countries for the implementation of those activities;

(c). To consider existing institutional arrangements or potential governance alternatives including a body, a board or a committee;

and to make recommendations on these matters to the COP at its nineteenth session.

In the same decision, the COP invited Parties and admitted observer organizations to submit to the secretariat, by 25 March 2013, their views on the matters referred to above (paragraphs 34 and 35), including potential functions, and modalities and procedures.

The COP also requested the secretariat, subject to the availability of supplementary resources, to organize an in-session workshop at the thirty-eighth sessions of the SBSTA and SBI on the matters referred to above, taking into account the submissions referred to above and to prepare a report on the workshop for the consideration by the SBSTA and SBI at their thirty-ninth sessions.