Subsidiary Group of the Committee for Environmental Protection on Climate Change Response (SGCCR)


The Representatives,

Recalling Rule 10 of the Revised Rules of Procedure for the Committee for Environmental Protection annexed to Decision 2 (2011), which provides that the Committee for Environmental Protection ("CEP") "may establish, with the approval of the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting, subsidiary bodies, as appropriate" and that such subsidiary bodies are to operate on the basis of the Rules of Procedure of the CEP as applicable;

Recalling Resolution 4 (2015), which encouraged the CEP to begin implementing the Climate Change Response Work Programme ("CCRWP") as a matter of priority;

Noting that the CEP at its twentieth meeting requested the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting to approve the establishment of a Subsidiary Group on Climate Change Response ("SGCCR") to support the implementation of the CCRWP (see paragraph 79 of the Report of the Twentieth Meeting of the Committee for Environmental Protection (CEP XX) (“CEP XX Report”));

Noting that the framework for the SGCCR, including terms of reference, is outlined in Appendix 2 to the CEP XX Report;

Decide to approve the establishment by the Committee for Environmental Protection ("CEP") of the Subsidiary Group on Climate Change Response as a subsidiary body of the CEP, in accordance with Rule 10 of the Revised Rules of Procedure for the Committee for Environmental Protection annexed to Decision 2 (2011).