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Civil society
Attending sessions
Civil society engages with the climate change process through representative non-governmental
observer organizations.
Admission: Article 7, paragraph 6, of the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change provides for the admission of non-governmental organizations to sessions of the
Convention bodies as observers. New applicant organizations are formally admitted by the
Conference of the Parties following the successful completion of the admission process.
Admission to the Conference of the Parties also applies to the Conference of the Parties serving
as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol. Participation at sessions in between
the SB sessions and the COP is limited to those organizations that have been admitted or
provisionally admitted at previous SB sessions and COPs.
Once an organization is admitted, its representatives may attend sessions of the Convention bodies as
observers. Those observer organizations that have been admitted to a COP in the past or
provisionally admitted to the SBs do not need to reapply for admission.
Review process: The deadline for application for provisional admission at SB 32 has
closed. Please contact us via email at cool@unfccc.int by 19 March 2010 if you have not received any
correspondence from us regarding your application. The review process will take some time and
notice of provisional admission will be sent via email to applicant organizations in April
2010.
The deadline for applications for admission in time for COP 16 is revised to 15 March 2010 from 31
April 2010 due to the number of additional sessions.
Attendance: Admission is not the only way to attend sessions. If your
organization is not admitted and you have missed the deadline for application, the
representatives of your organization can be nominated to attend sessions
by already-admitted observer organizations who agree to nominate them. Visibility will be
given to the name of the nominated organization on the official list of participants under the name
of the admitted organization. The contact details of the admitted observer organizations are
available here.
Notification and
Nomination: Official notification of sessions will be sent automatically from the
secretariat to admitted and provisionally admitted organizations about two months before each
session. Nominations will be requested in this notification. Nominations must be
repeated for each session. The list of representatives nominated for previous sessions
will not be carried over. Please respond officially to the email address specifed in the
notification. There is no limit to the number of representatives who can be nominated.
Please do not send nominated names to the
secretariat before you receive the official notification.
For more information please contact cool@unfccc.int
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