The ultimate decision-making body of the Convention is the Conference of the Parties (COP), which meets every year to review the implementation of the Convention. The COP adopts COP decisions and resolutions, published in reports of the COP. Successive decisions taken by the COP make up a detailed set of rules for practical and effective implementation of the Convention. The Kyoto Protocol supplements and strengthens the Convention and provides a further framework for action. The Conference of the Parties serves as the 'meeting of the Parties' to the Kyoto Protocol (COP/CMP), which also adopts COP/CMP decisions and resolutions on the implementation of its provision, published in reports of the COP/CMP). (Source: Search Decisions of the COP).
For details on the ongoing negotiation process, and the role of the six contact groups in it, the interested reader is referred to the Scenario note on the resumed seventh session (October, 26.2009).
The subject matters of the six contact groups are described formally and accessed here:
| nr. | subject matter | access on wiki |
|---|---|---|
| I. | a shared vision for long-term cooperative action | Shared Vision |
| II. | enhanced action on adaptation and its associated means of implementation | Adaptation |
| III. | enhanced action on mitigation and its associated means of implementation | Mitigation |
| IV. | enhanced action on the provision of financial resources and investment | Financial Resources |
| V. | enhanced action on development and transfer of technology | Development and Transfer of Technology |
| VI. | enhanced action on capacity-building | Capacity Building |
