The financial procedures for the Conference of the Parties, its subsidiary bodies and the secretariat stipulate that contributions will be made “each year by Parties on the basis of an indicative scale, adopted by consensus by the Conference of the Parties, and based on such a scale of assessments of the United Nations as may be adopted from time to time by the General Assembly”.
At its seventieth session, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution A/RES/70/245 containing the scale of assessments for the contributions of Member States to the regular budget of the United Nations for 2016, 2017 and 2018. The indicative scale of contributions from Parties to the Convention for the biennium 2016–2017 as contained in the annex to decision 22/CP.21 and the indicative scale of contributions from Parties to the Kyoto Protocol for the biennium 2016–2017 as contained in the annex to decision 12/CMP.11 have been revised to ensure that they are based on the scale of assessments of the United Nations applicable for this period. The indicative contributions for the biennium 2016–2017, based on the revised scales, are reflected in tables 1 and 2.
Notifications to Parties regarding their contributions for 2016 and 2017 have already been dispatched by the secretariat. For those Parties that paid their contributions on the basis of the scales contained in the annexes to decisions 22/CP.21 and 12/CMP.11, the differences have been incorporated into communications on the status of contributions, including document FCCC/SBI/2016/INF.19.