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Dessima Williams, Grenada, speaking for the Alliance of Small Island States during the AWG-LCA's opening plenary. She urged parties to return to the negotiations with a renewed sense of commitment and urgency. |
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The Republic of Korea, for the Environmental Integrity Group, encouraged the AWG-LCA Chair to prepare new draft negotiating text before the June session, and called for at least two additional negotiating sessions. |
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During the AWG-LCA opening plenary, Fernando Tudela, Mexico, expressed support for the Chair’s efforts to start a new stage in these "complex negotiations" and outlined consultations by the Mexican COP Presidency to build confidence in the process. |
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AWG-LCA Chair Margaret Mukahanana-Sangarwe (Zimbabwe) during the AWG-LCA's opening plenary. |
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L-R:Richard Kinley, UNFCCC Deputy Executive Secretary and Haldor Thorgeirsson, UNFCCC Secretariat, during the AWG-LCA opening plenary. Deputy Executive Secretary Kinley stressed the Secretariat's readiness to arrange additional meetings in 2010. |
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Yemen, for the G-77/China, called for further commitments by Annex I parties for the Kyoto Protocol's second commitment period. |
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Spain, for the EU, identified Copenhagen as a step in negotiations for a legally-binding post-2012 agreement under the UNFCCC, recognizing the “crucial and sensible role” of the Kyoto track. |
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AWG-KP Chair John Ashe (Antigua and Barbuda) during the opening plenary, highlighting the need to complete the AWG-KP's work by COP/MOP 6 in Cancún, Mexico. |
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UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) resources
Official web site
Overview schedule
Provisional agenda and annotations and the scenario note on the ninth session of the AWG-LCA: FCCC/AWGLCA/2010/1 and FCCC/AWGLCA/2010/2
Provisional agenda and annotations and the scenario note on the eleventh session of the AWG-KP: FCCC/KP/AWG/2010/1 and FCCC/KP/AWG/2010/2
AWG-KP documents
AWG-LCA documents
UNFCCC News
UN resources
Gateway to the UN System’s Work on Climate Change
Informal Thematic Debate of the UN General Assembly on Climate Change as a Global Challenge
IISD RS resources
IISD RS coverage of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, 7-19 December 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark
IISD RS coverage of the Barcelona Climate Change Talks 2009, 2-6 November 2009, Barcelona, Spain
IISD RS coverage of the UNFCCC Technical Workshop on Advancing the Integration of Approaches to Adaptation Planning, 2-14 October 2009, UN Conference Centre (UNCC), Bangkok, Thailand
IISD RS coverage of the Bangkok Climate Change Talks - 2009, 28 September - 9 October 2009, UNCC, Bangkok, Thailand
IISD RS coverage of the Bonn Climate Change Talks - August 2009, 10-14 August 2009, Bonn, Germany
IISD RS coverage of the Bonn Climate Change Talks - June 2009, 1-12 June 2009, Bonn, Germany
IISD RS coverage of the UNFCCC Technical Workshop on Increasing Economic Resilience to Climate Change and Reducing Reliance on Vulnerable Economic Sectors through Economic Diversification, 28-30 April 2009, Cairo, Egypt
IISD RS summary report of the Thirtieth Session of the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC), 21-23 April 2009, Antalya, Turkey (English: HTML - PDF) (Spanish: HTML - PDF) (Japanese: PDF)
IISD RS coverage of the Bonn Climate Change Talks - March/April 2009, 29 March - 8 April 2009, Bonn, Germany
IISD RS summary report of the UNFCCC 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 2009, Havana, Cuba (HTML - PDF)
IISD RS coverage of the UN Climate Change Conference - Poznań, 1-12 December 2008, Poznań, Poland
IISD RS coverage of AWG-LCA 2, second part of the AWG-KP 5, and twenty-eighth sessions of the SBSTA and the SBI of the UNFCCC, 2-13 June 2008, Bonn, Germany
IISD RS coverage of the UN Climate Change Conference - Bali, 3-15 December 2007, Bali, Indonesia
IISD RS climate and atmosphere page
Climate-L - A mailing list for news on climate change policy
Linkages Update - Bi-weekly international environment and sustainable development news
MEA Bulletin - Newsletter on key MEAs and their secretariats
Climate Change Policy & Practice - News and information on the actions of international organizations in responding to the problem of global climate change
African Regional Coverage |
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