Date:
Reference:

6 September 2018
EDM/INF./COP24/SEPT.18

INFORMATION NOTE
Early opening of the United Nations Climate Change Conference
COP 24/CMP 14/CMA 1.3, Katowice, Poland

I hereby inform Parties and observer States to the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change (UNFCCC), its Kyoto Protocol and its Paris Agreement that the twenty-fourth session
of the Conference of the Parties (COP), fourteenth session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the
meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP) and the third part of the first session of the
Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement (CMA) will open
on Sunday, 2 December 2018 in Katowice, Poland.
The President-Designate of COP 24/CMP 14/CMA 1.3 consulted with the COP Bureau and it was
agreed that an early opening of the session will provide an opportunity to make the best use of the time
available to finalize negotiations on the Work Programme under the Paris Agreement. All six Bodies of
the UNFCCC will open and launch their work on Sunday, 2 December 2018.
The secretariat will liaise with the Host Country on logistical arrangements for the sessions
regarding the new opening date of COP 24, including pre-sessional and preparatory meetings prior to the
Conference.
Pre-sessional preparatory meetings will be held as follows:
26 – 27 November 2018:
28 – 29 November 2018:
28 – 29 November 2018:
30 November – 1 December 2018:

Least Developed Countries
Small Island Developing States
African Group
Group of 77 and China
Yours sincerely,
(Signed by)
Patricia Espinosa

Distribution: To Parties and observer States to the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change through their national focal points and diplomatic missions accredited to the Federal
Republic of Germany.