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Recalling paragraphs 4 and 7(a) of the financial procedures for the Conference of the Parties, its subsidiary bodies and the secretariat,1
Noting with appreciation the methodology applied by the secretariat in developing the budget for the biennium 2020–2021, including the early engagement with Parties,2
Having considered the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2020–2021 submitted by the Executive Secretary,3
1.Approves the programme budget for the biennium 2020–2021, amounting to EUR 59,847,785, for the purposes specified in table 1;
2.Requests the secretariat, in implementing its work programme for the biennium 2020–2021 based on the programme budget approved in paragraph 1 above, to seek to allocate adequate resources for constituted bodies in support of their response to the mandates given by the governing bodies, and for the mandated activities under the current transparency arrangements;
3.Also requests the Executive Secretary to refine the budget methodology and its application for future bienniums with a view to enhancing the transparency of the proposed budget documentation and to continue engaging Parties early in the budget preparation process;
4.Notes with appreciation the annual contribution of EUR 766,938 of the Host Government to the core budget;
6.Notes that the programme budget contains elements relating to the Convention and the Paris Agreement as well as to the Kyoto Protocol;
8.Notes that the indicative scale of contributions covers 90 per cent of the contributions specified in table 1;
9.Invites the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, at its fifteenth session, to endorse the elements of the recommended budget as it applies to the Kyoto Protocol;
10.Also invites the United Nations General Assembly to decide, at its seventy-fourth session, on the issue of meeting the conference services expenses from its regular budget as a continuation of existing practice;
11.Approves a contingency budget for conference services, amounting to EUR 7,501,900, to be added to the programme budget for the biennium 2020–2021 in the event that the United Nations General Assembly decides not to provide resources for these activities in the United Nations regular budget (see table 3);
12.Requests the Executive Secretary to report to the Subsidiary Body for Implementation on the implementation of matters referred to in paragraphs 10–11 above, as necessary;
13.Authorizes the Executive Secretary to make transfers between each of the appropriation lines set out in table 1, up to an aggregate limit of 15 per cent of total estimated expenditure for those appropriation lines, provided that a further limitation of up to –25 per cent of each such appropriation line shall apply, while ensuring no negative impacts on the activities under each division;
14.Decides to maintain the level of the working capital reserve at 8.3 per cent of the estimated expenditure;
15.Urges Parties that have not made contributions in full to the core budget for the current and/or previous bienniums to do so without further delay;
16.Invites all Parties to the Convention to note that each Party shall, prior to 1 January of each year, inform the secretariat of the contribution it intends to make that year and of the projected timing of that contribution in accordance with paragraph 8(a) of the financial procedures for the Conference of the Parties, its subsidiary bodies and the secretariat,4 and that contributions to the core budget are due on 1 January of each year in accordance with paragraph 8(b) of the financial procedures, and to pay promptly and in full, for each of the years 2020 and 2021, the contributions required to finance the expenditures approved in paragraph 1 above and any contributions required to finance the expenditures arising from the decision referred to in paragraph 11 above;
17.Takes note of the funding estimates for the Trust Fund for Participation in the UNFCCC Process specified by the Executive Secretary (see table 4);
19.Takes note of the funding estimates for the Trust Fund for Supplementary Activities specified by the Executive Secretary (EUR 63,542,327 for the biennium 2020–2021) (see table 5);
20.Invites Parties to make contributions to the Trust Fund for Supplementary Activities with a view to enabling the implementation of activities envisaged under the Fund;
21.Requests the secretariat to continue to seek efficiencies and streamline administrative services in order to save costs in the biennium 2020–2021 and to report thereon at the fifty-fourth session of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (May–June 2021);
22.Also requests the Executive Secretary to report to the Conference of the Parties at its twenty-sixth session (November 2020) on income and budget performance for the period 1 January to 30 June 2020, taking into account guidance from Parties, and to propose any adjustments that might be needed to the programme budget for the biennium 2020–2021;
23.Further requests the Executive Secretary to prepare a biennial final report on the implementation of the core budget and the supplementary budget, covering the period from January of the first year to December of the second year of the budget period and providing information on expenditure by programme and by stream of activities and on overall execution against specific objectives and items of expenditure, for consideration by the Subsidiary Body for Implementation at its first session held after the end of the reporting period and for input into the preparation of the budget for the following budget period;
24.Takes note of the information contained in the note by the secretariat on the revised indicative contributions for 2019;5
25.Decides that the scale of contributions contained in the annex shall also be applicable for 2019, covering 85 per cent of the contributions specified in table 1 of decision 21/CP.23.
Table 1 - 2020–2021 Core budget by appropriation line(Euros)
Abbreviations: AS = Administrative Services, HR = Human Resources, ICT = Information and Communication Technology Services, IPCC = Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
| 2020 | 2021 | 2020–2021 | |
| A. Appropriations | |||
| Executive | 1 667 860 | 1 667 860 | 3 335 720 |
| Programmes Coordination | 256 940 | 256 940 | 513 880 |
| Adaptation | 3 261 940 | 3 261 940 | 6 523 880 |
| Mitigation | 2 049 500 | 2 049 500 | 4 099 000 |
| Means of Implementation | 3 018 600 | 3 018 600 | 6 037 200 |
| Transparency | 6 159 920 | 6 159 920 | 12 319 840 |
| Operations Coordination | 588 980 | 588 980 | 1 177 960 |
| Secretariat-wide costsa | 1 293 335 | 1 293 335 | 2 586 670 |
| AS/HR/ICTb | 2 115 905 | 2 115 905 | 4 231 810 |
| Conference Affairs | 1 324 120 | 1 324 120 | 2 648 240 |
| Legal Affairs | 1 160 680 | 1 160 680 | 2 321 360 |
| Intergovernmental Support and Collective Progress | 1 579 820 | 1 676 840 | 3 256 660 |
| Communications and Engagement | 1 664 740 | 1 664 740 | 3 329 480 |
| IPCCc | 244 755 | 244 755 | 489 510 |
| Total appropriations | 26 387 095 | 26 484 115 | 52 871 210 |
| B. Programme support costsd | 3 430 322 | 3 442 935 | 6 873 257 |
| C. Adjustment to working capital reservee | 102 271 | 1 047 | 103 317 |
| Total (A+B+C) | 29 919 688 | 29 928 097 | 59 847 785 |
| Income | |||
| Contribution from the Host Government | 766 938 | 766 938 | 1 533 876 |
| Contributions from all Parties | 29 152 750 | 29 161 159 | 58 313 909 |
| Total income | 29 919 688 | 29 928 097 | 59 847 785 |
Table 2 - Secretariat-wide staffing from the core budget
Abbreviations: ASG = Assistant Secretary-General, D = Director, P = Professional, USG = Under-Secretary-General.
| 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | |
| Professional category and above | |||
| USG | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| ASG | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| D-2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| D-1 | 7 | 8 | 8 |
| P-5 | 15 | 18 | 18 |
| P-4 | 35 | 34 | 34 |
| P-3 | 43 | 44 | 44 |
| P-2 | 16 | 18 | 19 |
| Subtotal Professional category and above | 120 | 126 | 127 |
| Subtotal General Service category | 53.5 | 53.5 | 53.5 |
| Total | 173.5 | 179.5 | 180.5 |
Table 3 - Resource requirements for the conference services contingency(Euros)
| Object of expenditure | 2020 | 2021 | 2020–2021 |
| Interpretation | 1 199 500 | 1 235 500 | 2 435 000 |
| Documentation | |||
| Translation | 1 074 400 | 1 106 700 | 2 181 100 |
| Reproduction and distribution | 625 300 | 644 000 | 1 269 300 |
| Meetings services support | 239 000 | 246 200 | 485 200 |
| Subtotal | 3 138 200 | 3 232 400 | 6 370 600 |
| Overhead charge | 408 000 | 420 200 | 828 200 |
| Working capital reserve | 294 300 | 8 800 | 303 100 |
| Total | 3 840 500 | 3 661 400 | 7 501 900 |
Table 4 - Resource requirements for the Trust Fund for Participation in the UNFCCC Process
Abbreviations: LDC = least developed country, SIDS = small island developing State.
| Sessional option | Estimated cost (EUR) |
| Support for one delegate from each eligible Party plus a second delegate from each LDC and each SIDS to participate in a two-week session in Bonn | |
| Support for two delegates from each eligible Party plus a third delegate from each LDC and each SIDS to participate in a two-week session outside Bonna | 11 331 640 |
Table 5 - Overview of projects and funding requirements from the Trust Fund for Supplementary Activities for the biennium 2020–2021
Abbreviations: AC = Adaptation Committee, ACE = Action for Climate Empowerment, CGE = Consultative Group of Experts, CTCN = Climate Technology Centre and Network, KCI = Katowice Committee of Experts on the Impacts of the Implementation of Response Measures, LCIPP FWG = Facilitative Working Group of the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform, LEG = Least Developed Countries Expert Group, NAP = national adaptation plan, NAZCA = Non-State Actor Zone for Climate Action, NDC = nationally determined contribution, NWP = Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change, PCCB = Paris Committee on Capacity-building, REDD+ = reducing emissions from deforestation; reducing emissions from forest degradation; conservation of forest carbon stocks; sustainable management of forests; and enhancement of forest carbon stocks (decision 1/CP.16, para. 70), SCF = Standing Committee on Finance, TEC = Technology Executive Committee, TT:CLEAR = technology information clearing house, WIM = Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage associated with Climate Change Impacts.
| Project number | Project/subproject | Supplementary requirements (EUR) |
| SB101-000 Intergovernmental engagement | 2 764 116 | |
| SB101-003 | Consultancies to conduct the independent review of the CTCN and periodic assessment of the Technology Mechanism | 197 750 |
| SB101-004 | Additional support to the development of the enhanced transparency framework | 1 594 385 |
| SB101-005 | Enhanced coordination and operational support to Presidency teams | 662 948 |
| SB101-007 | Enhanced legal support to presiding officers | 309 032 |
| SB102:000 Intergovernmental processes | 10 436 766 | |
| SB102-001 | Enhanced support to established work programmes on research and systematic observation, the technical examination process on adaptation, the NWP and NAPs | 1 664 847 |
| SB102-002 | Support to the technical examination process on mitigation | 1 350 079 |
| SB102-003 | Enhanced support, engagement and outreach in support of the development of the biennial assessment and overview of financial flows, including in relation to Article 2, paragraph 1(c), of the Paris Agreement, and determination of needs of developing countries | 1 320 572 |
| SB102-004 | Full support to all potential reviews of national reporting, including reporting related to REDD+ | 3 843 460 |
| SB102-005 | Enhanced support for the review of the long-term goal and preparations for the global stocktake | 574 741 |
| SB102-006 | Enhanced support to ACE and the summary for policymakers on the technical examination processes on mitigation and adaptation | 1 683 067 |
| SB200-000 Constituted bodies | 20 377 803 | |
| SB200-001 | Support for the full extent of activities envisaged in the workplans of the AC, the LEG, the LCIPP FWG and the WIM Executive Committee | 4 129 712 |
| SB200-002 | Support for the full extent of activities envisaged in the workplans of the KCI and contingency for any institutional arrangements related to Article 6 of the Paris Agreement | 4 114 714 |
| SB200-003 | Support for the full extent of activities envisaged in the workplans of the SCF, the TEC and the PCCB | 995 650 |
| SB200-004 | Support for the full extent of short-term activities of the CGE, in particular in support of developing countries’ reporting | 10 651 195 |
| SB200-007 | Support for the full extent of short-term activities of the compliance committees under the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement | 486 533 |
| SB300-000 Data and information management | 11 798 167 | |
| SB300-001 | Development and enhancement of adaptation-related data portals, including the adaptation registry, NAPs and the NWP | 634 843 |
| SB300-002 | Development and enhancement of mitigation-related data portals and data management systems, including an NDC registry, an information portal on long-term low-emission development strategies and a contingency system for corresponding adjustment under Article 6, paragraph 2, of the Paris Agreement | 3 041 305 |
| SB300-003 | Development and enhancement of support and means of implementation data portals, in particular the finance, TT:CLEAR and capacity-building portals | 387 866 |
| SB300-004 | Enhancement of existing portals and data management for existing transparency arrangements and initiation of the development of systems for the enhanced transparency framework | 2 476 734 |
| SB300-006 | Maintenance and enhancement of NAZCA and internal communications | 1 605 504 |
| SB300-009 | Enhancement of the security of the secretariat’s data management systems | 1 492 097 |
| SB300-008 | Enhancement of the registration and accreditation system for UNFCCC conferences and events | 1 858 398 |
| SB300-007 | Enhancement of the elections portal and database | 301 421 |
| SB400-000 Enhanced engagement | 16 231 311 | |
| SB400-001 | Enhanced engagement with respect to climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation | 230 520 |
| SB400-002 | Regional dialogues and broader engagement and partnerships with respect to NDCs and consideration of the socioeconomic impacts of their development and implementation | 318 145 |
| SB400-003 | Enhanced engagement with Parties and other stakeholders to strengthen the capacities of developing countries with respect to the implementation of NDCs and NAPs | 4 232 121 |
| SB400-004 | Enhanced engagement with national reporting experts to enhance capacity for participation in the transparency arrangements under the Convention and the Paris Agreement | 2 737 631 |
| SB400-006 | Enhanced engagement of all stakeholders in the UNFCCC process and action towards the objective of the Convention, including provision of multilingual communication materials and regional engagement | 569 283 |
| SB400-009 | Enhancement of the information and communication technology infrastructure required to support virtual participation and engagement in UNFCCC events and activities | 6 526 518 |
| SB400-007 | Enhanced engagement with and support of legislators and policymakers through information exchange and knowledge management with respect to climate change legislation | 805 690 |
| SB400-010 | Enhanced engagement by the Executive Secretary and Deputy Executive Secretary in United Nations wide management and coordination activities | 811 403 |
| SB500-000 Oversight and administration | 1 979 365 | |
| SB500-010 | Consultancies to support organizational oversight and development and enhanced engagement by the Executive Secretary and Deputy Executive Secretary in United Nations wide management and coordination activities | 170 630 |
| SB500-012 | Coordination of innovation activities and operational efficiency improvements | 455 797 |
| SB500-009 | Upgrading of the secretariat’s information and communication technology infrastructure | 864 009 |
| SB500-007 | Institutional legal review and advice with respect to all of the secretariat’s activities and operations | 488 928 |
| Total | 63 542 327 |