Christine Adam, Director and Principal Legal Adviser
The Legal Affairs division provides legal and procedural services to support the sound delivery of all mandated activities under the Convention, the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement, including the Katowice outcomes of the Paris Agreement Work Programme (PAWP), and to ensure that the governing and subsidiary bodies function and operate in accordance with legal, procedural and institutional requirements, and that presiding officers, Bureau members, regional and negotiating groups, Parties, chairs, facilitators and secretariat teams receive timely and effective legal, procedural and, where relevant, substantive support and services in respect of all agenda items under negotiation. It also protects the legal interests of the secretariat and the secretariat process (minimizing the legal liabilities of the secretariat) and ensures that the operations, management and administration of the secretariat are conducted in accordance with decisions of the COP, the CMP and the CMA and applicable UN regulations, rules and policy.