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FCCC/CP/1997/L.1

14 November 1997

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CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES

Third session

Kyoto, 1-10 December 1997

Item 6 of the provisional agenda


HIGH-LEVEL SEGMENT ATTENDED BY MINISTERS AND

OTHER HEADS OF DELEGATION

Draft list of items proposed by the Group of 77 and China

 

Note by the secretariat


At the seventh session of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI), the United Republic of Tanzania, on behalf of the Group of 77 and China, proposed to the SBI a list of items on which the high-level segment of the Conference of the Parties at its third session could focus.

The secretariat has been requested by the Group of 77 and China to make the proposed draft list of items available to the Parties at the third session of the Conference of the Parties.





GE.97-

Draft list of items for consideration of the high-level segment - COP 3


Participants in the high-level segment of COP 3 in Kyoto should provide the necessary guidance, particularly in the final stage of the negotiation of the Berlin Mandate process. They should be guided by the principles of the Convention and the provisions of the Berlin Mandate.

The following items shall provide the main focus for the high-level segment:

Guidance to the final stage of the negotiation of the Berlin Mandate process.

2. Means of implementation of the Convention:

(a) Financial resources (resources flow);

(b) Technology development, demonstration and diffusion of technologies, promoting technology breakthrough;

(c) Education, training, public awareness;

(d) Strengthening of observational networks and research to reduce scientific uncertainties.

Way forward:

Co-operation in good faith, in accordance with the Convention provisions and guidance to:

(a) Implementation of all existing commitments under the Convention;

(b) Implementation of commitments to be agreed upon at Kyoto on limiting and reducing greenhouse gases by Annex I Parties to the Convention.



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