Parties also indicated the need to improve the capabilities of national climate change coordinators and national institutions to manage and coordinate climate change programmes.

Peer Stiansen, UNFCCC secretariat, Coordinator

Mukul Sanwal, UNFCCC secretariat, Coordinator

Lucas Assunção, UNFCCC secretariat, Coordinator

Lucas Assunção, UNFCCC secretariat, Coordinator

Vitaly Matsarski, UNFCCC secretariat, Coordinator

Lucas Assunção, UNFCCC secretariat, Coordinator

Aniket Ghai, UNFCCC secretariat, Coordinator

Lucas Assunção, UNFCCC secretariat, Coordinator

Mukul Sanwal, UNFCCC secretariat, Coordinator

Aniket Ghai, UNFCCC secretariat Jacob Swager, UNFCCC secretariat, Coordinator

Vitaly Matsarski, UNFCCC secretariat, report coordinator

Peer Stiansen, UNFCCC secretariat, visit coordinator

The representative of the Coordinating Committee for International Staff Unions and Associations of the United Nations (CCISUA) noted that his organization had made a statement to the Fifth Committee and that its position remained unchanged.

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The committees were designed to institutionalize the exchange of information and coordination among key agencies responsible for natural resource management and climate change.

Parties identified barriers for effective coordination and communication of climate change activities.

Accordingly, the changes resulting from inflation comprise three elements, namely, post adjustment movements for Professional staff, salary adjustments for General Service staff and adjustments to non post estimates.

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How can the imperative of economic development be reconciled with the need to limit climate change?

In one case, a meeting was held in conjunction with a meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in order to encourage co ordination.

Parties had either used existing institutions or created committees for coordinating sustainable development and climate change and for implementing programmes.

It coordinates the issuance of host country visas and reports all changes at Headquarters to the host country.

The Office has, however, expressed its reservations about recommendations made by the IASC in respect of a unitary field coordination model based on the Resident Coordinator system.

Change of unadjusted emissions

One favoured approach is to improve coordination between the activities of the focal points of the environmental conventions, which could lead eventually to the preparation of joint projects dealing at the same time with desertification control, climate change and biodiversity.

The management attributed the changes in schedules to changes in priorities and demands, difficulty in reaching agreements with many least developed countries and movement of staff.

These included inter ministerial climate change coordination committees, technical working groups undertaking specific studies on inventories, mitigation, vulnerability and adaptation, and climate research centres coordinating national studies.

Cross sectoral dialogue and cooperation are needed to achieve best practices to combat climate change, as well as coordination and integration of sector policies having an impact on climate change.

Cause for adjustment Change in CO2 emissions due to adjustments for 1990

In that context, coordination of work among the bodies dealing with the conventions on climate change, biological diversity and desertification was essential.

However, it is also suggested that merely changing the institutional affiliation of the resident coordinator would not automatically lead to changes in the perception of bias and could, at worst, weaken the capacity of the resident coordinator to raise funds for the whole United Nations country team.

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The United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator should be responsible for the coordination of these mechanisms.

An inter ministerial committee for climate change or a branch of an inter ministerial committee on environment was often chosen as the forum to discuss, and as the means to coordinate, climate change policies and activities with those of development.

(c) Strengthening of the resident coordinator system and of the role and functioning of the resident coordinator, on the basis of mutual accountability among UNCT members

However, the research being done lacks overall coordination towards the objectives of the FCCC.

Strengthening coordination among different humanitarian agencies requires us to take into account the changing nature of various emergencies and the evolution of the participating agencies themselves.

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It was agreed that ACC members would designate focal points responsible for coordinating the work carried out in the field of democratization within their respective organizations, and I am pleased to report that focal points have now been appointed in most ACC bodies.

c Including national officers and national General Service staff.

Mrs. Rosalina Tuyuc, Guatemalan Widows apos National Coordinating Committee (CONAVIGUA)

The overall coordination in country falls under the responsibility of the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Moscow, who is also the UNHCR Representative and DHA Coordinator.