Table of Contents
Preface Main Page
Foreword

Part 1 The Negotiating Context
1. The Climate Change Problem
 2. The Climate Convention
and the Kyoto Protocol
3. The Bodies in the Regime
4. The Rules of Procedure
5. State and Non-State Actors
6. Coalitions in the Climate
Change Regime
7. The G-77 and China

Part 2 Negotiating Skills
8. The Ideal Negotiator
 9. The Handicapped Negotiator
10. Coping Strategies
11. Tips and Tricks for the
Lonely Diplomat
 12. Index to the FCCC
 13. References




Part I: The Negotiating Context
3. The Bodies in the Regime
The need for executing agencies / The bodies established by the Convention and the Protocol / Other formal bodies / The informal groups / The formal and the informal / Tips and tricks

3.1 The need for executing agencies

The scientific and policy issues are complex. Negotiations must be prepared not only at the domestic level, but also at the international level to ensure that consensus is possible at the annual COPs. This implies substantial intersessional work during which the subsidiary bodies prepare materials, and meetings of the subsidiary bodies where discussions on the content take place.