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Bonn Climate Change Talks
29 March - 8 April 2009
Bonn, Germany |
Highlights from Tuesday, 7 April
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On Tuesday, the AWG-LCA held contact groups on adaptation, mitigation and technology and finance. The AWG-KP held contact groups and informal consultations on Annex I emission reductions, legal matters, potential consequences, LULUCF and flexibility mechanisms.
Informal consultations were also held on additional meetings.
Photo: AWG-LCA Vice-Chair Luiz Machado and AWG-LCA Chair Michael Zammit Cutajar
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| AWG-LCA contact group on delivering finance and technology |
| AWG-LCA Vice Chair Luiz Machado (center) with members of the Secretariat. |
| Thelma Krug, Brazil (left photo). Bernaditas Müller, Philippines, (right photo), said
that the Christmas bonus of one Wall Street banker was higher than the cumulative resources devoted to the LDC Fund. She called for unconditional and predictable adaptation funding to allow for long-term planning. |
| On REDD, Thailand (left photo) highlighted REDD as an adaptation strategy cutting across the four building blocks, while Australia
(right photo) noted her proposal proposal for a Carbon Forest Market Mechanism. |
| On REDD+, Kevin Conrad, Papua New Guinea (left photo), emphasized the need to integrate multiple revenue streams and organize them so as to facilitate a step-wise process, with scaled-up and unconditional ODA and earmarked market-linked funding. He emphasized the need to ensure carbon market stability, possibly through setting aside a percentage of AAUs. Andrew Bishop, Guyana (right photo), emphasized the importance of conservation. |
AWG-LCA contact group on adaptation
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| Delegates during the contact group meeting. |
| Co-Chair Thomas Kolly (center) presented a summary of ideas structured around five themes: underlying principles; the objective and scope for an adaptation framework; institutional arrangements; means of implementation; risk and insurance; and monitoring and feedback. |
| AWG-LCA contact group on mitigation |
| Left to right: Roberto Acosta, UNFCCC Secretariat, AWG-LCA Chair Michael Zammit Cutajar, Festus Luboyera, UNFCCC Secretariat, and Olga Pilifosova, UNFCCC Secretariat. |
Andre Odenbreit Carvalho, Brazil, who speaks for the G-77/China on mitigation, consulting with AWG-LCA Chair Michael Zammit Cutajar (left photo) and Johathan Pershing and Trigg Talley, US (right photo). |
| Kevin Conrad, Papua New Guinea, consulting (left center) and delegates from Cyprus (right). |
International youth speak with Michael Zammit Cutajar (left) and delegates (right).
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UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer and Sergey Tulinov, Russian Federation. Delegates from Norway with Jennifer Morgan, E3G.
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| AWG-KP contact group on Annex I emission reductions and legal matters (development of text) |
| Delegates scramble for the text of the draft conclusions on Annex I emission reductions and on legal matters.
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| Delegates reviewing the text (left) and Katia
Simeonova
with Oleg Shamanov, Russian Federation (right). |
| Left photo: Claudio Forner, UNFCCC Executive Secretary, AWG-KP Chair Harald Dovland, and Richard Kinley, UNFCCC Deputy Executive Secretary. |
| Delegates met behind closed doors in informals throughout the day. |
| AWG-KP contact group on emissions trading and the market-based mechanisms |
| Andrew Howard, UNFCCC Secretariat, John Kilani, UNFCCC Secretariat, and Contact Group Co-Chairs Gertraud Wollansky, Austria, and Christiana Figueres, Costa Rica. |
| Documents are handed out to delegates (left photo) and Ian Fry, Tuvalu, and
Artur Runge-Metzger, European Commission, engaged in consultations (right photo). |
| Informal consultation on additional meetings (left) and G-77/China delegates consulting on future sessions (right). |
| ENB interview with UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer |
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer with ENB writers Kati Kulovesi, Kelly Levin and María Gutiérrez
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High School Students Lead the Way |
A group of students from Marienschule high school in Euskirchen, Germany, presented 131 Euros collected from their classmates to William Agyemang-Bonsu, a member of the Adaptation Fund Board, as a contribution to adaptation funding. The funds were donated in response to a Climate Crisis presentation made by Stuart Scott (above left). |
Nicolas Gomez holds up the money collected from students.
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| Ana Romero Salcedo, International Youth Delegation and Britta Bornicke, Marienschule. |
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Relevant links
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- 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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