What is the legal status of a UN ‘INF’ document? A UN ‘INF’ document is an information document, usually used to share Parties’ views or circulate more general information. It is less formal than a decision document and does not have any legally binding status.

What is the meaning of “Protocol or another legal instrument” and “applicable to all Parties” in the text below? more specifically:  1. “Protocol or another legal instrument”: is it right that the second part does not give any guarantee for a legally binding instrument, since legal instrument can also mean COP decision? 2. “applicable …

1. Are there any rules of procedure for Contact Groups under the UNFCCC, both in terms of how they are established and how they should operate? Do the Draft Rules of Procedure (RoP) of the UNFCCC apply mutatis mutandis to Contact Groups? In particular, does the Contact Group need to discuss all the proposals that […]

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1. Can you confirm the interpretation that committees are in fact SBs for the purpose of Art 7.2? If this is the case, how do they differ from the more familiar subsidiary bodies: SBI and SBSTA? 2. Does this mean that there is no automatic hierarchy of ‘committees’ as sitting beneath SBSTA and SBI except […]