Amendments to the Convention must be supported by a two-thirds majority who are " present and voting " and can be made during an extraordinary meeting of the COP if one-third of the Parties are interested in such a meeting.

In electrically powered heat pumps, the heat transferred can be three or four times larger than the electrical power consumed, giving the system a Coefficient of Performance ( COP ) of 3 or 4, as opposed to a COP of 1 of a conventional electrical resistance heater, in which all heat is produced from input electrical energy.

The COP can be maximized at design time by choosing a heating system requiring only a low final water temperature ( e. g. underfloor heating ), and by choosing a heat source with a high average temperature ( e. g. the ground ).

Domestic hot water ( DHW ) and conventional heating radiators require high water temperatures, reducing the COP that can be attained, and affecting the choice of heat pump technology.

If a company does not publish formal reports, a COP can be created as a stand-alone document.

As the formula shows, the COP of a heat pump system can be improved by reducing the temperature gap minus at which the system works.

With poor posture and / or exaggerated spinal curvatures it is possible that the COP excursion would increase which can cause instability as the COP shifts towards the perimeter of the base of support.

Therefore a COP is universal and can be used in any system of units.

While the COP is partly a measure of the efficiency of a heat pump, it is also a measure of the conditions under which it is operating: the COP of a given heat pump will rise as the input temperature increases or the output temperature decreases because it is linked to a warm temperature distribution system like underfloor heating.

Its ISO 4217 code is COP and it is also informally abbreviated as COL $.

In the ideal case the COP also equals to the Carnot COP.

It also includes along the harbour and around Bella Center ( which hosted the climate meeting COP 15 in December 2009 ).

A watchdog timer ( or computer operating properly ( COP ) timer ) is a computer hardware or software timer that triggers a system reset or other corrective action if the main program, due to some fault condition such as a hang, neglects to regularly service the watchdog ( writing a " service pulse " to it, also referred to as " kicking the dog ", “ petting the dog ”, " feeding the watchdog " or " waking the watchdog ").

Travel by bus to nearby cities is also fairly cheap ; for example a bus ride to Medellin, a city 4 or 5 hours away, costs 32, 000 COP one way ( about $ 15 US ).

In the summer, COP is used for warm-weather sports such as mountain biking ( there are of bike trails ) and is also the site of a number of summer festivals.

COP is also outfitted with a downhill course that holds competitions through the summer.

# Compliance: Final action on compliance procedures and mechanisms that would address non-compliance with Protocol provisions was deferred to COP 7, but included broad outlines of consequences for failing to meet emissions targets that would include a requirement to " make up " shortfalls at 1. 3 tons to 1, suspension of the right to sell credits for surplus emissions reductions, and a required compliance action plan for those not meeting their targets.

The functions of the secretariat are to make arrangements for sessions of the Conference of the Parties ( COP ) and its subsidiary bodies established under the Convention and to provide them with services as required.

However, a COP may help make a determination of system choice based on carbon contribution.

The number of ratification for the entry-into force of the Ban Amendment is under debate: Amendments to the convention enter into force after ratification of " three-fourths of the Parties who accepted them " 17. 5 ; so far, the Parties of the Basel Convention could not yet agree whether this would be three fourth of the Parties that were Party to the Basel Convention when the Ban was adopted, or three fourth of the current Parties of the ConventionReport of COP 9 of the Basel Convention.

At the 2010 10th Conference of Parties ( COP ) to the Convention on Biological Diversity in October in Nagoya, Japan, the Nagoya Protocol was adopted.

Other actions the Convention itself does not provide for but that derive from subsequent COP 11 resolutions may be taken against the offending Party.

The Conference of the Parties ( COP ) oversees the implementation of the Convention.

The CST was established under Article 24 of the Convention as a subsidiary body of the COP, and its mandate and terms of reference were defined and adopted during the first session of the Conference of the Parties in 1997.

The Least Developed Countries Fund for Climate Change ( LDCF ) and the Special Climate Change Fund ( SCCF ) were established by the Global Environment Facility ( GEF ) in response to guidance from the Conference of the Parties ( COP ) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ).

It is held alongside the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of Parties ( COP ).

* Convention on Biological Diversity CBD / COP 10-Agricultural Biodiversity decision X / 34

" The CDM is supervised by the CDM Executive Board ( CDM EB ) and is under the guidance of the Conference of the Parties ( COP / MOP ) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ).

** The Subsidiary Board of Scientific and Technological Advice ( SBSTA ) serves as a link between information and assessments provided by expert sources ( such as the IPCC ) and the COP, which focuses on setting policy.

** The Subsidiary Board of Implementation ( SBI ) makes recommendations on policy and implementation issues to the COP and, if requested, to other bodies.

* A decision to consider at COP 8 how to achieve a review of the adequacy of commitments that might lead to discussions on future commitments by developing countries.

The parties to the convention have met annually from 1995 in Conferences of the Parties ( COP ) to assess progress in dealing with climate change.

Since the UNFCCC entered into force, the parties have been meeting annually in Conferences of the Parties ( COP ) to assess progress in dealing with climate change, and beginning in the mid-1990s, to negotiate the Kyoto Protocol to establish legally binding obligations for developed countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

COP 6 negotiations resumed July 17 – 27, 2001, in Bonn, Germany, with little progress having been made in resolving the differences that had produced an impasse in The Hague.

* The United Nations Global Compact requires companies to communicate on their progress ( or to produce a Communication on Progress, COP ), and to describe the company's implementation of the Compact's ten universal principles.

Two major entities contested the election: the incumbent PNM, and a coalition called the People's Partnership, comprising the UNC, COP, TOP ( Tobago Organisation of the People ), and two labour and non-governmental organisations: the National Joint Action Committee and the Movement for Social Justice, led by UNC leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar.

In the final hours of COP 6, despite some compromises agreed between the United States and some EU countries, notably the United Kingdom, the EU countries as a whole, led by Denmark and Germany, rejected the compromise positions, and the talks in The Hague collapsed.

A number of operational details attendant upon these decisions remained to be negotiated and agreed upon, and these were the major issues considered by the COP 7 meeting that followed.

Taking place from October 23 to November 1, 2002, in New Delhi COP 8 adopted the Delhi Ministerial Declaration that, amongst others, called for efforts by developed countries to transfer technology and minimize the impact of climate change on developing countries.

A 13-paragraph ' political accord ' was negotiated by approximately 25 parties including US and China, but it was only ' noted ' by the COP as it is considered an external document, not negotiated within the UNFCCC process.

The Bureau of the CST is responsible for the follow-up of the work of the Committee between sessions of the COP and may benefit from assistance of ad hoc panels established by the COP.

Under the authority of the CST, a Group of Experts was established by the COP with a specific work programme, to assist in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the CST.

Sununu was appointed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to serve on the Congressional Oversight Panel ( COP ) for the Troubled Asset Relief Program funds, whose purpose is to assess how the TARP program is working, in order to help Congress determine whether to continue injecting capital into the financial sector.

The COP derringer was invented by Robert Hillberg and closely resembled his earlier work on insurgency weapons.

However, for heating, the COP is the ratio to input work of the heat removed from the cold reservoir plus the heat added to the hot reservoir by the input work:

For an air cooler, COP could be improved by using ground water as an input instead of air, and by reducing temperature drop on output side through increasing air flow.

In the ideal case the cycle is reversible so the COP ( the ratio of the cooling power and the input power ) is equal to the Carnot COP given by T < sub > L </ sub >/( T < sub > a </ sub >- T < sub > L </ sub >).

Important specifications to consider when searching for industrial chillers include the total life cycle cost, the power source, chiller IP rating, chiller cooling capacity, evaporator capacity, evaporator material, evaporator type, condenser material, condenser capacity, ambient temperature, motor fan type, noise level, internal piping materials, number of compressors, type of compressor, number of fridge circuits, coolant requirements, fluid discharge temperature, and COP ( the ratio between the cooling capacity in RT to the energy consumed by the whole chiller in KW ).