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United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali

3-14 December 2007
Bali, Indonesia


Saturday, 15 December: 2:30am: BREAKING NEWS: SMALL GROUP AGREES TEXT; PLENARY SET TO MEET AT 8:00 AM BALI TIME

The small group of ministers and high-level officials has reportedly brokered a deal just after 2:00 am local time. The text would start a Bali roadmap leading to a post-2012 agreement in Copenhagen in 2009. The roadmap would include a "twin-track" process under the Convention and the Protocol.
However, the deal still needs to be considered by all parties in plenary starting at 8:00 am tomorrow.
Photo: German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel followed by the press as he leaves the meeting room.

Daily web coverage:

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The press surrounds delegates as they leave the conference room (left) and UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer speaks with Richard Kinley and Salwa Dallalah, UNFCCC Secretartiat (right).
 
Friday, 14 December: 10:37: Negotiations Go Late Into Friday Night
Negotiations in two small, high-level groups were continuing late on Friday night, with slow progress reported. The latest news suggests that talks will continue throughout the night, with hopes of brokering a deal by Saturday morning.
 

 

Press outside the room where ministers are meeting a small group.

 
8:30 pm: Talks Go Down To the Wire
As of 6:00 pm, high-level ministerial negotiations were still taking place behind closed doors, with negotiators apparently still disagreeing over preambular text, including language on Annex I targets from the IPCC and AWG. At 6:30pm, the COP reconvened, followed at 7:15pm by the COP/MOP, to adopt many of their items. However, key outstanding issues under the Bali roadmap remain, and high-level consultations reconvened at 8:30pm with same small group of countries.
 

UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer with Jim Connaughton and Paula Dobriansky, US, and Robert Owen Jones, Australia
 
Highlights from Friday, 14 December
 
High-level segment
 
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, speaking for ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability on behalf of local governments, speaks during the high-level segment.
 
 

Kyung-wha Kang, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, UNHCR, and Julia Marton-Lefevre, Director-General, IUCN (right)

 
Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York, and Michelle Wyman, ICLEI (left photo) and the delegation of the United Arab Emirates (right photo)
 
 
Ministerial level negotiations
 

 

 

 
 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
Evening Plenary
 
 
The dais during an evening plenary session to adopt various items.
 

Yvo de Boer unfolding a chair presented to him by South Africa as a joke to compensate for the Secretariat's budget deficit.

Left photo and photo below: Kompas Daily/Lasti Kurnia

 
 
COP President Witoelar gavels through decisions
 
Press Conferences
 
 
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer and John Hay, UNFCCC Spokesperson
 
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and London's Deputy Mayor Nicky Gavron
 
Miscellaneous Photos
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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