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Cooperation & Support
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International cooperation, and the provision of support to developing countries and to countries with economies
in transition, are crucial to ensure the implementation of the Convention by all Parties. These would be
impossible without support from the Convention's financial mechanism - the Global Environment
Facility (GEF), its implementing agencies, and a host of other international organizations. Both the
SBI and the
SBSTA have a number
of standing agenda items that fit under this overall heading, and this section of the website gives access to
the key areas of that work.
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Financial Mechanism
The Financial Mechanism pages contain
information on the financial mechanism of the Convention - the Global
Environmental Facility (GEF), as well as details about three special funds:
Special Climate Change
Fund (SCCF), Adaptation Fund (AF), and the Least Developed
Countries Fund (LDCF). There is also information on guidance provided by the Parties to the
financial mechanism as well as on the review process of operations of the financial
mechanism. The pages also provide a list of all relevant decisions related to the financial
mechanism and links to
relevant external sites.
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Technology
The Technology section has links to the
Convention's technology clearing house information system
(TT:CLEAR), and to work done by the SBSTA in implementing the Technology Transfer Framework
(Decision 4/CP.7), including through the Expert Group on Technology Transfer (EGTT).
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Least Developed Countries
The Least Developed Country (LDC) page provides links to
information that is of specific interest for LDCs, such as work on National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPA), and the work
of the LDC Expert Group
(LEG), which are contained in other parts of the UNFCCC website, as well as to relevant
information on selected external websites.
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Education and Outreach
The section on Education and Outreach
includes information on the implementation of the New Delhi Work Programme on Article 6 of the
Convention: "Education, Training, Public Awareness, Public Participation, Public Access to
Information and International Cooperation." It also hosts the information network clearing house
on Article 6 of the Convention (CC:iNet).
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Response Measures
The impact of the implementation of response measures
generally refers to the negative side effects resulting from the implementation of climate change
mitigation activites. The Convention and its Kyoto Protocol commit Parties to minimize adverse
economic, social and environmental impacts on developing countries when responding to climate change.
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Capacity Building
The section on Capacity Building looks at the
implementation of the capacity building frameworks by developing countries and countries with economies
in transition, and contains information on the activities and information products of supporting
organizations.
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Cooperation with International Organizations
Cooperation with
International Organizations, such as with scientific bodies, UN agencies and other conventions,
is an important and essential dimension of the implementation of the Convention.
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Activities Implemented Jointly
A pilot phase of activities implemented jointly (AIJ) was
launched in 1995 under which Annex I Parties may implement projects in other countries that reduce
emissions of greenhouse gases or enhance their removal through sinks. AIJ under the pilot phase are
undertaken on a voluntary basis.
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Announcement
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Consultative Group of Experts training materials
The complete set of training materials, used during the CGE regional hands-on training workshops, are available
online or in a CD ROM. This package
contains numerous resources for GHG inventories, vulnerability, adaptation and mitigation assessments.
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Information Note, Fellowship Programme
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The United Nations Climate Change secretariat announces the launch of its fellowship programme, the objective
of which is to contribute to building capacity for addressing climate change in Parties not included to Annex I
to the Convention, in particular Parties that are small island developing States or least developed
countries.
Information note (137 kB)
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