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Bonn Climate Change Talks
29 March - 8 April 2009
Bonn, Germany |
Highlights from Tuesday, 31 March |
On Tuesday, the AWG-LCA convened an in-session workshop on response measures in the morning, and held contact group discussions on a shared vision, and on technology and finance in the afternoon. The AWG-KP contact group on Annex I emission reductions met in the morning, and the AWG-KP opening plenary reconvened in the afternoon to address legal matters, potential consequences, flexibility mechanisms, LULUCF, and sectors, gases and sources.
Photo: AWG-LCA Workshop Chair Kishan Kumarsingh, Trinidad and Tobago (center), with Roberto Acosta (left) and Festus Luboyera (right), UNFCCC Secretariat |
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| AWG-LCA workshop on economic and social consequences of response measures (para.1 (b) of the Bali Action Plan) |
| A view of the dais before the convening of the morning workshop. |
Cristian Maquieira, Chile (left), said consideration of negative consequences of response measures must be part of the final agreement. In his presentation, Andrew Ure, Australia (center), noted that the economic downturn has had a far greater impact on exporters than climate policy, and underscored the need for long-term planning for exporting economies. Bernaditas Müller, G-77/China (right), called for enhanced understanding of the nature and magnitude of consequences and for evaluating the effectiveness of existing tools for assessing consequences.
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Ana Belen Sanchez, International Labour Organization, discussed impacts of mitigation policies on employment and incomes, and recommended programmes that target the most disadvantaged, as well as entrepreneurship and skills development. |
Aysar Tayeb, Saudi Arabia (left), made an in-depth presentation of his views on response measures. Bhutan (right) highlighted climate risks to fragile mountain ecosystems. |
| Kate Horner, Friends of the Earth (left), cautioned against failing to protect human rights. Anabella Rosemberg, International Trade Union Confederation (center), intervening on behalf of labor. Workshop Chair Kishan Kumarsingh with Roberto Acosta and Festus Luboyera, UNFCCC Secretariat. |
| AWG-LCA Contact Groups on shared vision and on delivering finance and technology |
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| AWG-LCA Vice-Chair Luiz Machado and AWG-LCA Chair Michael Zammit Cutajar (left photo) and Chair Zammit Cutajar (right photo). |
| Antonio La Vina, the Philippines, and Christiana Figueres, Costa Rica (left photo), AWG-LCA Vice-Chair Machado chairing the contact group on delivering finance and technology (center), and Kunihiko Shimada, Japan (right), intervening on shared vision. |
| On flexible mechanisms, Panama, on behalf of Central American countries and the Dominican Republic (left photo), stressed environmental integrity. Taka Hiraishi and Simon Eggleston, IPCC (right photo), noted that global temperature potential (GTP) values have not been assessed or approved by the IPCC, and that GTP or any other common metrics will be considered in the context of the Fifth Assessment Report. |
| Plenary control room (left). Chris Henschel, Climate Action Network (right), called for: transparency; avoiding hypothetical baselines; accounting for peatlands and degradation; and erring on the side of caution. |
| AWG-KP Contact Group on Annex I emission reductions |
| Left to right: Katya Simeonova, UNFCCC Secretariat, AWG-KP Chair Harald Dovland, and Claudio Forner, UNFCCC Secretariat. |
| Members of the G-77-China during the contact group meeting. |
| Posters representing the participation breakdown since COP 1 of media, observers and parties/observer states (left photo) and cumulative admissions of observer organizations since COP 1 (right photo). |
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Relevant links
Related IISDRS Coverage
- UNFCCC Technical Workshop on Integrating Practices, Tools and Systems for Climate Risk Assessment and Management and Disaster Risk Reduction Strategies into National Policies and Programmes, 10-12 March, Havana, Cuba
- Third International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation, 18-24 February, 2009, Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Poznan Climate Change Conference, 1-12 December, 2008, Poznan, Poland
- 29th Session of the IPCC,
31 August - 4 September 2008, Geneva, Switzerland
- Accra Climate Change Talks 2008 (AWG-KP 6 and AWG-LCA 3), 21-27 August, Accra Ghana
- Bonn Climate Change Conference 2008 (SB 28, AWG-LCA 2, AWG-KP 5, part 2), 2-13 June, 2008, Bonn, Germany)
- 28th Session of the IPCC, 9-10 April 2008, Budapest, Hungary
- First Session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-Term Cooperative Action under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Fifth Session of the Ad Hoc Working Group under the Kyoto Protocol, 31 March-4 April 2008, Bangkok, Thailand
- UNFCCC Expert Group Meeting on Socioeconomic Information under the Nairobi Work Programme (NWP), 10-12 March 2008, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
- UNFCCC Expert Group Meeting on Methods and Tools and on Data and Observations under the Nairobi Work Programme (NWP), 4-7 March 2008, Mexico City, Mexico
- UN Climate Change Conference in Bali (COP 13), 3-14 December 2007, Bali, Indonesia
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