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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
3.6 Tips and tricks
If you are alone on your delegation, you should focus on one or two critical issues for your country and choose the most appropriate plenary session.
Seek ways of finding out what happened in the sessions you missed.
If you can find another lone negotiator from a like-minded country, you can divide the plenary negotiations between you. This is unorthodox in that the other negotiator can in no way represent your country, but he or she can alert you to issues that might be relevant for your country and you can reciprocate in kind.
If you cannot make sense of all the informal processes, find someone from the NGOs from your region and ask them for a briefing.
In the long-term, it is absolutely imperative to make coalitions with other developing countries and share the participation in the informal processes (i.e., division of labour between countries (team up!)).
Footnotes
(1) Only Parties to a treaty participate in a COP. A Committee of the Whole (COW) has been established to allow non-Parties to participate in the discussions.
(2) An IPCC/SBSTA Joint Working Group has since been established to ensure linkages between the information needs of the Conference of the Parties and the scientific community. There is thus a regular dialogue between the two communities. This is generally true although sometimes there is a communication gap between the two groups and this is reflected in the confused wording on sinks in the Kyoto Protocol; (see Yamin (1998)).
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