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Disaster Risk Reduction in the United Nations UNFCCC SECRETARIAT The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat General description of the organization In 1992, most countries joined an international treaty -- the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) -- to begin to consider what can be done to reduce global warming and to cope with whatever temperature increases are inevitable. More recently, a number of nations approved an addition to the treaty: the Kyoto Protocol, which has legally binding measures and entered into force on 16 February 2005. The UNFCCC secretariat supports all institutions involved in the climate change process, particularly the COP, the subsidiary bodies and their Bureau and cooperative action by States to combat climate change and its impacts on humanity and ecosystems. The UNFCCC plays a catalytic role regarding action on climate change, and in particular adaptation, to initiate activities within the UN System to help implement mandated activities, including the Bali Action Plan. The Conference of the Parties (COP) is the “supreme body” of the Convention; it is the highest decision-making authority. It is an association of all the (192) countries that are Parties to the Convention. The COP meets every year, unless the Parties decide otherwise. The Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP) is the “supreme body” of the Kyoto Protocol. It is an association of those Parties to the Convention that have also ratified the Kyoto Protocol. The CMP meets every year during the same period as the COP. The Convention established two permanent subsidiary bodies: the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) and the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI). These bodies give advice to the COP and the CMP, and each has a specific mandate. The SBSTA and the SBI 44 Roles, mandates and areas of work of key UN entities
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