Decree No. 2011-1689 establishing the National Committee on Climate Change

This decree establishes a National Committee on Climate Change (COMNACC), under the authority of the Ministry of the Environment. The COMNACC is made up of representatives of state, local and associative structures, and it is a body for coordination, consultation, training, awareness raising, management and monitoring of the various activities identified in the implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its additional legal instruments. The COMNACC should plays a facilitator role for information, raising awareness and training in the design, financing, implementation, validation and monitoring of national, sub-regional and regional programs and projects related to the priority areas related to climate change. It has two subcommittees: the Carbon Sequestration Subcommittee and the Energy Subcommittee.