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
Latest Meeting
55th Meeting of the CMS Standing Committee (StC55)
17 February 2024
Documents and Outcomes
For further details on the operations of the StC
Reports and documents of all meetings
Members of the CMS Standing Committee
REGION | MEMBERS | NAME OF REPRESENTATIVE |
EMAIL ADDRESS |
ALTERNATES | NAME OF REPRESENTATIVE | EMAIL ADDRESS |
Africa | Algeria | Ms Fifi Mouhoubi | Seychelles |
Dr Frauke Fleischer-Dogley |
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Kenya* | Mr Patrick Omondi | [email protected]; [email protected] |
Uganda | Mr George Owoyesigire | ||
Zimbabwe | Mr Fulton Upenyu Mangwanya | Morocco | Mr Zouhair Amhaouch | |||
Asia | Bahrain |
Mr Ali Mansoor Abbas Mr Narjes Khalil Mohamed Mr Jawaher Bu Najma |
Maldives |
Ms Lisama SabryMr |
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India* | Mr Sushil Kumar Awasthi | [email protected] |
Bangladesh |
MD Moyeenuddin Khan |
[email protected] | |
Europe | Italy |
Mr Lorenzo Serra Ms Elisabetta Raganella Pelliccioni |
France |
Mr Charles-Henri de Barsac |
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Monaco* | Ms Céline Van Klaveren-Impagliazzo | [email protected] |
Montenegro |
Mr Aleksandar Perovic |
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United Kingdom (Chair) | Ms Caroline Daisley | [email protected] |
Croatia
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Ms Ana Kobaslic Ms Ivana Jelenić |
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South & Central America & Caribbean | Panama | Mr Tomás Fernández | [email protected] | Costa Rica | Ms Gina Cuza Jones | [email protected] |
Uruguay* (Vice-Chair) |
Ms Carmen Leizagoyen | Peru |
Ministra SDR Ana Teresa Lecaros Terry Ministro Consejero César Arístegui Bravo |
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Oceania | New Zealand* | Ms Alexandra Macdonald | [email protected] | Cook Islands | Ms Tepaeru Herrmann | |
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)