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REPORT OF THE CONFERENCE

The Second Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change opened on Monday, 8 July 1996. At the end of the first day, the Plenary suspended its work to allow the COP’s four subsidiary bodies to meet. The Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI), the Ad Hoc Group on the Berlin Mandate (AGBM), and the Ad Hoc Group on Article 13 (AG-13) met from 9-16 July. COP-2 resumed on 17 July with a high-level segment consisting of two plenary sessions and an informal roundtable, before the closing Plenary convened on 19 July to review and adopt the decisions put forth by the subsidiary bodies.