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Fifteenth Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Fifth Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP 15 and COP/MOP 5)

7-18 December 2009 | Copenhagen, Denmark

UNFCCC COP 15Highlights from Saturday, 12 December

On Saturday morning, the COP and COP/MOP plenaries convened. In the afternoon and evening, the closing plenaries of the SBI and SBSTA took place. Throughout the day, contact groups and informal consultations convened on a range of issues, including mitigation, finance and technology under the AWG-LCA, Annex I emission reductions and other issues under the AWG-KP, and various topics under the COP/MOP, SBSTA and SBI.



Handover to UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer and COP President Connie Hedegaard of 17 giant boat sails painted with climate messages and images by organizations participating in the climate march, as Mary Robinson, former UN High Comissioner for Human Rights, and Greenpeace Executive Director Kumi Naidoo look on.
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COP and COP/MOP plenaries
COP President Connie Hedegaard convenes stocktaking plenaries of the COP and the COP/MOP
 
 
AWG-LCA Vice-Chair Luiz Machado and UNFCCC Executive Director Yvo de Boer
UNFCCC Executive Director Yvo de Boer and COP President Connie Hedegaard
 
Tai Soo Chew, Singapore, speaks with AWG-LCA Chair Michael Zammit Cutajar
 
   
Long lines to enter into plenary because the hall  had reached capacity
 
     
Ian Fry, Tuvalu, raises a point of order during the COP/MOP plenary
   
A view of the dais during the COP/MOP plenary
     
COP President Connie Hedegaard consults with the Secretariat
AWG-LCA Chair Michael Zammit Cutajar reports on progress made during the first week to the COP stocktaking plenary
India holds up a saki cup from the Kyoto negotiations
Delegates from the Democratic Republic of the Congo
         
Ministers arrive in Copenhagen
Ed Miliband, UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with AWG-LCA Vice-Chair Luiz Machado
Andreas Carlgren, Swedish Environment Minister (far left), Ed Miliband, and Karstan Sach, Germany, consulting with other delegates
       
Security was tight around the room where the COP President's high-level consultations were taking place
 
     
 
Indian minister Jairam Ramesh (center)
       
Press Conferences
IPCC press conference on the road to the fifth assessment report
     
Rajendra Pachauri, IPCC Chair, speaks with the media
Rajendra Pachauri, IPCC Chair, during a press conference on the road to the next IPCC report
           
Rae-Kwon Chung, Republic of Korea, during a press conference
 
           
12 December Global Day of Climate Action
Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Mary Robinson participate in a candlelight vigil for a Real Deal in Copenhagen
Protesters outside the Bella Center marched from Parliament Square
       
 
 
         
UNFCCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer and COP President Connie Hedegaard are presented with giant boat sails painted with climate messages
Yvo de Boer addresses those gathered at the event
     
 
 
     
Archbishop Desmond Tutu addressing the vigil
 
     
 
 
     
 
 
       
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Kimo Goree, Anna Schulz and Kati Kulovesi, IISD, speak with Mohammad Reza Salamat, UN Secretary-General's Climate Support Team
UN Goodwill Ambassador and singer Angelique Kidjo (right) with a friend
         
 
Singing a version of the 12 days of Christmas adapted to the "Twelve Days of Copenhagen"
         
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IISD RS resources
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IISD RS coverage of the Agriculture and Rural Development Day 2009, 12 December 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark
IISD RS coverage of the Development and Climate Days at COP 15, 11-14 December 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark

IISD RS coverage of the Copenhagen Business Day, 11 December 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark
IISD RS coverage of Selected Side Events at COP 15 and COP/MOP 5, 7-18 December 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark
IISD RS coverage of the Barcelona Climate Change Talks 2009, 2-6 November 2009, Barcelona, Spain
IISD RS coverage of Selected Side Events at 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, 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 Selected Side Events at 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 Business Day at UNFCCC COP 14, 9 December 2008, Poznań, Poland
IISD RS coverage of the Forest Day 2 at UNFCCC COP 14, 8 December 2008, Poznań, Poland
IISD RS coverage of the Development and Climate Days at COP 14, 6-7 December 2008, Poznań, Poland
IISD RS coverage of the UN Climate Change Conference - Poznań, 1-12 December 2008, Poznań, Poland
IISD RS coverage of Selected Side Events at 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 Development and Climate Days at COP 13, 8-9 December 2007, Bali, Indonesia
IISD RS coverage of the Forest Day at UNFCCC COP 13, 8 December 2007, Bali, Indonesia
IISD RS coverage of the UN Climate Change Conference - Bali, 3-15 December 2007, Bali, Indonesia
IISD RS coverage of Selected Side Events at the N Climate Change Conference - Bali, 3-15 December 2007, Bali, Indonesia
IISD RS coverage of the Development and Adaptation Days at COP 12, 11-12 November 2006, Nairobi, Kenya
IISD RS coverage of the UN Climate Change Conference – Nairobi 2006, 6-17 November 2006, Nairobi, Kenya
IISD RS coverage of Selected Side Events at the UN Climate Change Conference – Nairobi 2006, 6-17 November 2006, Nairobi, Kenya
IISD RS coverage of the Development and Adaptation Days at COP 11, 3-4 December 2005, Montréal, Canada
IISD RS coverage of the UNFCCC COP 11 & COP/MOP 1, 28 November to 10 December 2005, Montréal, Canada
IISD RS coverage of Selected Side Events at the NFCCC COP 11 & COP/MOP 1, 28 November to 10 December 2005, Montréal, Canada
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