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Authors: Sven Harmeling and Benito Müller (January 2011)
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Oxford
Energy and Environment Brief
| Introduction According to the agreement
reached in Cancun, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) will be designed by a Transitional
Committee (TC) to be convened by the UNFCCC Executive Secretary, in consultation
with the COP Presidency. The Agreement stipulates that the TC is to have
15 members from developed and 25 members from developing country Parties
- the latter representing the relevant UN Groups, as well as Small Islands
Developing States (SIDS) and the Least Developed Country (LDC) Group. The
task of selecting the TC members has been delegated by the Convener to
the five UN regional groups who are to give notice, through their Chairs,
of the selected candidates by 31 January 2011. This selection procedure
ought to provide the TC with the legitimacy required for COP buy-in, and
to incorporate what has been referred to as the 'political expertise' to
guide the drafting work towards the desired COP approval at Durban in December
2011.
However, there are still some (procedural) issues that need to be looked in order to enable the TC to work as effectively as required by the very tight timetable. The aim of this Brief is to outline a number of proposals on how to address these issues - based primarily on experience from the Transitional Working Group (TWG), established in 2001 to work out modalities for the Global Fund (GF) to fight HIV/Aids, Tuberculosis, and Malaria - namely:
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