The Standing Committee was established by Resolution 1.1 of the Conference of the Parties (COP). It is responsible for carrying out interim activities on behalf of the COP to

  • ensure that decisions are implemented,
  • monitor the budget,
  • make recommendations for consideration by the next COP,
  • provide advice and guidance to the Secretariat,
  • represent the  COP in negotiations with the Host Government and UNEP with regard to the Secretariat,
  • act as a bureau at the COP,
  • and to undertake any other ad hoc task assigned to it by the COP.

The Standing Committee usually meets immediately before and after the COP. Intersessionally it usually meets once a year. The Committee consists of representatives of every global region, of the Depositary, of the country that hosted the previous COP and where applicable, of the country which plans to host the next meeting of the COP. The two regions with the largest membership (Europe and Africa) have three representatives each, Central & South America & the Caribbean and Asia both have two and Oceania one. There are no Parties from North America.

Terms of Reference for the Regional Representatives, adopted by the 37th Meeting of the Standing Committee

Members of the CMS Standing Committee

REGION MEMBERS NAME OF
REPRESENTATIVE
EMAIL
ADDRESS
ALTERNATES   NAME OF REPRESENTATIVE  EMAIL ADDRESS
Africa Algeria Ms Fifi Mouhoubi

[email protected]

Seychelles

Dr Frauke Fleischer-Dogley

[email protected]

  Kenya* Mr Patrick Omondi [email protected];
[email protected]
Uganda Mr George Owoyesigire

[email protected]

  Zimbabwe Mr Fulton Upenyu Mangwanya

[email protected]

Morocco Mr Zouhair Amhaouch

 [email protected]

Asia Bahrain

Mr Ali Mansoor Abbas

Mr Narjes Khalil Mohamed  

Mr Jawaher Bu Najma  

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

Maldives

Ms Lisama SabryMr

[email protected]

  India* Mr Sushil Kumar Awasthi [email protected]

 

Bangladesh

MD Moyeenuddin Khan

[email protected]
Europe Italy

Mr Lorenzo Serra 

Ms Elisabetta Raganella Pelliccioni

[email protected]

[email protected]

France

Mr Charles-Henri de Barsac

c[email protected]

  Monaco* Ms Céline Van Klaveren-Impagliazzo [email protected]

Montenegro 

Mr Aleksandar Perovic

[email protected]

  United Kingdom (Chair) Ms Caroline Daisley [email protected]

Croatia

 

Ms Ana Kobaslic

Ms Ivana Jelenić

[email protected]

[email protected]

South & Central America & Caribbean Panama Mr Tomás Fernández [email protected] Costa Rica Ms Gina Cuza Jones [email protected]
 

Uruguay*

(Vice-Chair)

Ms Carmen Leizagoyen

[email protected]

Peru

Ministra SDR Ana Teresa Lecaros Terry

Ministro Consejero César Arístegui Bravo

[email protected]

 

[email protected]

Oceania New Zealand* Ms Alexandra Macdonald [email protected] Cook Islands Ms Tepaeru Herrmann

[email protected]

North America  vacant      vacant    
Depositary Germany Mr Juergen Friedrich [email protected] not applicable    
Host of COP14 Uzbekistan Mr Javokhir Abdukhalikov [email protected][email protected] not applicable    

** Chair of the Finance & Budget Sub-Committee    * Members of the Finance & Budget Sub-Committee

CMS Standing Committee Members since 1985 (Table in PDF Format)