Twenty-Eighth Sessions of the Subsidaiary Bodies and Related Meetings
1st – 12th June 2008
As part of an ongoing series of negotiations under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Kyoto Protocol a series of meeting will take place in early June. These negotiations are focused in particular on finalising a multilateral agreement on climate change for after 2012, when the Kyoto Protocol’s first ‘commitment period’ expires. The UNFCCC 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 traditionally meet in parallel, at least twice a year. The twenty-eighth sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice and the Subsidiary Body for Implementation of the UNFCCC will be held from 4-13 June 2008. The second session of the Ad hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention and the second part of the fifth session of the Ad hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol will be held from 2-12 June 2008. For further information please refer to http://unfccc.int/meetings/sb28/items/4328.php.