9 September 2016: As Parties prepare to convene in Marrakesh, Morocco, for the 22nd session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 22) to the UNFCCC, which will take place from 7-18 November, the UNFCCC Secretariat has released revised documents, including annotated agendas and an updated version of the progress tracker. After adopting the Paris Agreement last year, Parties will use the Marrakesh Climate Change Conference to work toward completing the “rulebook” that will guide implementation of the Agreement once it enters into force.

To monitor progress toward fulfilling the numerous mandates stemming from the Paris Agreement and its accompanying decision, the Secretariat created a progress tracker that clusters the mandates substantively. The document allows stakeholders to see which UNFCCC bodies or the Secretariat were assigned to complete which mandate, the timeline, the current status and next steps if applicable. The version released on 8 September shows two items fully completed. These are the Secretariat’s May 2016 update of the synthesis report on intended nationally determined contributions (INDCs) so as to cover all information communicated by Parties in their INDCs, and the posting of an interim public registry in the first half of 2016 for the recording of NDCs.

Many of the remaining tasks recorded in the tracker will be under discussion by the COP or the Subsidiary Bodies in Marrakesh, which is reflected in the COP 22 provisional agenda, the latest version of which includes annotations giving the background on each item to be discussed, as well as the supporting documents. The annotated agenda also provides an overview of the organization of the session, including the time management principles to be followed, and information on the high-level segment, mandated events and other meetings. The newly annotated version of the agenda for the 12th session of the Conference of the Parties Serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 12) was also released. [Progress Tracker: Work Programme Resulting from the Relevant Requests Contained in Decision 1/CP.21] [COP 22 Provisional Agenda with Annotations] [CMP 12 Provisional Agenda with Annotations] [IISD RS Story on Provisional Agendas]