A guide to the climate change convention process

This guide, prepared in the tenth anniversary year of the adoption of the Convention, provides an overview of the international climate change process as of May 2002. It focuses on the institutions and procedures of the Convention and the Protocol, the participants in the climate change process, and on how the on-going negotiations are conducted.

The guide is complemented by the Guide to the Climate Change Convention and its Kyoto Protocol, which provides a more in-depth explanation of the commitments under the Convention and the Protocol, along with the “rulebooks” for their implementation.