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Poznan Climate Change Conference
1-12 December 2008
Poznan, Poland

Highlights from Tuesday, 9 December

On Tuesday, contact groups resumed on adaptation, mitigation, technology and financing under the AWG-LCA. There were also contact groups and informal consultations on the Adaptation Fund, capacity building, CCS under the CDM, decision 1/CP.10 (adaptation and response measures), the financial mechanism, non-Annex I national communications, privileges and immunities, Protocol Articles 2.3 and 3.14 (adverse effects), REDD and spillover effects. Above photo: UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer addresses the media during the daily noon briefing on the status of negotiations.

 
 

6 December - 9 December - 10 December -11 December - 12 December

 
FOREST DAY DEVELOPMENT AND CLIMATE DAYS BUSINESS DAY
 
AWG-LCA Contact Group: Delivering on technology and financing
 
 
Preety Bhandari, UNFCCC, Luis Machado, AWG-LCA Chair, and Sudhir Sharma, UNFCCC.
 
 
 
AWG-LCA Contact Group: Enhanced action on adaptation and means of implementation
 
Roberto Acosta, UNFCCC, Co-Chair William Kojo Agyemang-Bonsu, Ghana, Co-Chair Thomas Kolly, Switzerland, and Youssef Nassef, UNFCCC
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AWG-LCA Contact Group: Enhanced action on mitigation and means of implementation
 
 

Brazil (left photo) is speaking for the G-77/China in this contact group. AWG-LCA Vice-Chair Michael Zammit Cutajar speaks with delegates (right photo).

 
Other activities
 
World vs. Bank: A colorful carnival-inspired demonstration protesting "against the capture of climate investments by international financial institutions".
 
 
 
 

The Korean Green Foundation provides the chance to be photographed with the climate crisis clock, which urges delegates to "Stop CO2, act now!" (left photo).

Ice sculptures call on delegates to "stop harming, start helping", and show how crucial it is that negotiators remember the human impact climate change is having on millions of poor people around the world. (right photo).

 
Press Conferences
 
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer (center) discusses the status of negotiations.
 
 
 
Participants watch the press conference outside the press conference room.
 
 
Globescan: climate action and economic growth go together says a global survey of 1000 climate decision makers worldwide.
 
 
UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner and Monique Barbut, GEF CEO, discuss expansion of African geothermal: clean indigenous and climate friendly energy for the 21st century.
 
ENB interview with the UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer
 
Miscellaneous photos
 
 
 
 
Claudio Forner, UNFCCC, and Tahar Hadj-Sadok, Algeria (left photo). SBI Chair Bagher Asadi and SBI Coordinator Vitaly Matsarski (right photo).
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

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