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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. Application for admission as an observer organization to the
sessions of the Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Kyoto Protocol is accepted throughout
the year with deadlines for each upcoming session. 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 the current review cycle of applications for
observer organizations closes on 26 February 2010 in time for SB 32. 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 May 2010.
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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