Report of the Standing Committee on Rules & Procedures

The Standing Committee on Rules and Procedures reports the appointment of Alvaro F. dos Santos from Brazil to the committee and proposes three sets of amendments to the IAI's Rules of Procedure. These amendments aim to resolve quorum issues encountered at the CoP in Manaus, restructure Executive Council meetings to provide year-long guidance to the Directorate instead of six-month intervals, and establish a process for filling vacancies on the Bureau to maintain a three-member membership.

• The Standing Committee on Rules and Procedures has appointed Alvaro F. dos Santos, a legal expert from Brazil’s Ministry of Science and Technology, to the committee.
• Proposed amendments to the Rules of Procedure for the Conference of the Parties (CoP) and the Executive Council seek to address the issue of quorums for CoP meetings to prevent a recurrence of problems experienced at the CoP in Manaus.
• The committee proposes expanding the Executive Council (EC) meeting held immediately after the CoP to provide the Directorate with detailed guidance for a full year, replacing the previous system of having an EC meeting at the midpoint of the yearly period between CoPs.
• Amendments are proposed to allow the IAI to fill vacancies on the Bureau to ensure it maintains its full membership of three people, which is deemed more critical as the IAI transitions to one-year intervals between meetings.

APA

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (2009). Report of the Standing Committee on Rules & Procedures. https://archive.iai.int/admin/site/sites/default/files/iai-cop-16-scrp-report-e.pdf

Chicago

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research. Report of the Standing Committee on Rules & Procedures. 2009. https://archive.iai.int/admin/site/sites/default/files/iai-cop-16-scrp-report-e.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{interamericaninstituteforglobalchangeresearch2009report, author = {{Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}}, title = {{Report of the Standing Committee on Rules \& Procedures}}, institution = {Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}, year = {2009}, month = may, url = {https://archive.iai.int/admin/site/sites/default/files/iai-cop-16-scrp-report-e.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }