Views on the proposal by the Russian Federation for the development of appropriate procedures to enable Parties to the Kyoto Protocol to adopt voluntary commitments. Submissions from Parties and a Party/observer State.
The Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP), at its second session, requested its President to convene a workshop during the sessional period in May 2007 to clarify and explore the scope and implications of the proposal by the Russian Federation that appropriate procedures be developed to enable Parties to the Kyoto Protocol to adopt voluntary commitments. The CMP further invited Parties to submit their views on this matter to the secretariat by 17 August 2007, for circulation in advance of the third session of the CMP (FCCC/KP/CMP/2006/10,
paras. 135–136). The secretariat has received seven submissions from Parties to the Kyoto Protocol and one submission from a Party to the Convention, observer State to the Kyoto Protocol. In accordance with the procedure for miscellaneous documents, these submissions are attached and reproduced in the language in which they were received and without formal editing