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United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali
3-14 December 2007
Bali, Indonesia |
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| Highlights from Friday, 7 December |
Contact groups and informal consultations were held throughout the day on a wide range of issues, including: the AWG; long-term action under the Convention; the Adaptation Fund; the Buenos Aires programme of work on adaptation and response measures (Decision 1/CP.10); the CDM; compliance; joint implementation; reducing emissions from deforestation; and technology transfer. In addition, an in-session workshop was held on mitigation, focusing on non-CO2 emissions, and an IPCC briefing on the Fourth Assessment Report took place.
Photo: Five months after a pioneering world tour from Switzerland to Bali, a solar powered taxi has arrived at the UN Climate Change Conference |
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| IPCC Briefing on the Fourth Assessment Report, with emphasis on the Synthesis Report |
| Left to right: IPCC authors Bert Metz, Bill Hare and Lenny Bernstein, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer, COP President Rachamat Witoelar, IPCC Chair
Rajendra Pachauri, SBSTA Chair Kishan Kumarsingh, and authors Ronald Stouffer, and Martin Manning. |
| IPCC Chair Rajendra Pachauri and IPCC Secretary Renate Christ with the reports from the three Working Groups. |
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer with IPCC Chair Pachauri (left) and SBSTA Chair Kishan Kumarsingh with the IPCC reports (right) |
Applause for the IPCC's Nobel Peace Prize
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| IPCC author Martin Manning (right) spoke on observed changes, effects and causes of climate change. |
| In-session workshop on climate change mitigation: non-CO2 emissions, including methane recovery and utilization |
| The dais during the in-session workshop on climate change mitigation. |
| Gerie Jonk, Netherlands, Bill Irving, US, and Laurence Graff, EC |
| Laurence Graff, EC (left), spoke on
reducing fluorinated gases in the European Union,
and Stephen Cornelius, UK (right),
spoke on non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions reductions in the United Kingdom. |
| Georg Maue, Germany, Luis Santos, Uruguay,
and Hayden Montgomery, New Zealand |
| Contact Group: issues relating to the clean development mechanism |
| Contact group Co-Chairs Georg Borsting, Norway, and John Kilani, Qatar |
| Delegates during the CDM contact group |
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer meets the Earth Negotiations Bulletin team |
| UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer with ENB writers Peter Doran and Kati
Kulovesi |
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Yvo de Boer with Maria Gutierrez and Chris Spence |
"ZOOM- Kids on the move for better climate in 2007": 128,000 children accepted the challenge to walk and cycle on a symbolic journey that stretched 20 times around the world to protect the world's climate. During this press briefing, representatives of these children handed over the results to UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer.
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Around the conference center |
| Artur Runge-Metzger, European Commission, being interviewed following an EU press conference (left). Adnan Amin, Secretariat of the UN Systems Chief Executive Board (CEB), and Michael Zammit Cutajar (right). |
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Balinese dancers outside the convention center.
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