Agenda (16 kB)

Summary note by the facilitators (14 kB)

Report on the special event

By its decision 1/CP.16, paragraph 93, the Conference of the Parties (COP) decided to provide a forum on the impact of the implementation of response measures, and to that end requested the Chairs of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) and the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) to convene such a forum at the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth sessions of these bodies, with the objective of developing a work programme under the subsidiary bodies to address this impact, with a view to adopting, at the seventeenth session of the COP, modalities for the operationalization of the work programme and a possible forum on response measures.

The COP invited Parties and relevant intergovernmental organizations to submit to the secretariat, by 28 March 2011, their views on the issues referred to in paragraph above for consideration by the SBI and the SBSTA at their thirty-fourth sessions. These submissions are contained in document FCCC/SB/2011/MISC.2. Submissions from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are listed below.

Background documents:

Submissions from Parties and relevant intergovernmental organizations (FCCC/SB/2011/MISC.2) and non-governmental organizations ( CIEL, ICTSD and IHRLC).

Information note (141 kB)

Additional information:

Submission by the WHO to the Chairs of the joint SBI/SBSTA forum on the impact of the implementation of response measures (187 kB)