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FCCC/SBSTA/1996/16
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Notes
Item 4 (a) of the provisional agenda
Abstract
At its first session, the Conference of the Parties (COP 1), by its decision 4/CP.1, decided "that the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice, drawing upon existing competent international bodies, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, ... should ... consider the methodological issues arising from the review of national
communications, including those identified in the compilation and synthesis of national communications and in available in-depth review reports, and make recommendations thereon to the Conference of the Parties at its second session" and "propose a work plan and timetable for longer-term activities relating to methodological questions (including inventory
methodologies and methodologies for analysing impacts and mitigation options) and the establishment of working relationships with other bodies (in particular, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and its working groups and programmes)" (FCCC/CP/1995/7/Add.1). At its third session, the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice
(SBSTA) took note of a summary report by the secretariat of a meeting on methodologies (as discussed below), held with relevant international organizations. It requested the secretariat to prepare a report on the matter for the fourth session (FCCC/SBSTA/1996/13). Furthermore, in anticipation of the budget for the 1998-1999 biennium being debated
by the Conference of the Parties at its third session, the secretariat has to prepare a budget proposal in early 1997. In order to prepare this, the secretariat needs guidance on the activities it should undertake to support the needs of the Convention bodies for work on methodologies. This note has been prepared in response to the above requests. The purpose of the
note is to provide the SBSTA with an overview of current methodological programmes, to identify important gaps and to define options for consideration that would ensure that methods are available in the future.
Meeting
Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), Fourth session, 16-18 December 1996, Geneva, Switzerland
Keywords
conference papers
international organizations
methodology
work programme
Content
Publication date
14/11/1996