FCCC/CP/1997/3

Review of the implementation of the convention. Financial mechanism. Report of the Global Environment Facility to the Conference of the Parties at its third session. Note by the secretariat.

The Conference of the Parties (COP), at its second session, by its decision 12/CP.2, adopted and thereby brought into force a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the COP and the Council of the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) (FCCC/CP/1997/7/Add.1). The MOU provides, inter alia, that annual reports of the GEF are to be made available to the COP through the secretariat. The attached report has been submitted by the GEF secretariat in response to that provision. This report further contains details on the financial support by the GEF to non-Annex I Parties for the preparation o their initial national communications. Such information is made available by the secretariat to the SBI at each of its sessions (decision 10/CP.2)

Item 3 (c) of the provisional agenda

Kyoto Climate Change Conference - December 1997, COP 3

meeting papers

-

United Nations Office at Geneva | Geneva (Switzerland) | 31/10/1997