IISD RS @ Warsaw Climate Change Conference - November 2013, 21 November 2013, Warsaw, Poland

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Warsaw Climate Change Conference - November 2013

11-22 November 2013 | Warsaw, Poland

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Intro - 11 November - 12 November - 13 November - 14 November - 15 November

16 November - 18 November - 19 November - 20 November

21 November - 22 November

Highlights for Thursday, 21 November 2013

On Thursday morning, the high-level ministerial dialogue on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP) took place. Throughout the day, contact groups, informal consultations and other meetings were held under the COP, CMP and ADP, including the ADP open-ended consultations on both workstreams. The COP/CMP President’s informal stocktaking plenary took place in the evening.

Participants from various civil society organizations informing the press of their reasons for walking out

HIGH-LEVEL MINISTERIAL DIALOGUE ON THE DURBAN PLATFORM FOR ENHANCED ACTION (ADP)

L-R: COP 19/CMP 9 President Marcin Korolec and UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres

ADP Co-Chairs Kishan Kumarsingh and Artur Runge-
Metzger in conversation with delegates from Singapore

L-R: Amb. José Marcondes de Carvalho, Brazil, in discussion with
Connie Hedegaard, Commissioner for Climate Action, European
Commission

UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres addressing the High-Level Ministerial dialogue on the ADP

Jakaya Kikwete, President of the United Republic of Tanzania

COP 19/CMP 9 President Marcin Korolec

L-R: ADP Co-Chairs Artur Runge-Metzger and Kishan Kumarsingh, with Halldor Thorgeirsson,
UNFCCC Secretariat

L-R: High-level Dialogue on the ADP Co-Facilitators Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister of the
Environment and Water Resources, Singapore, and Timothy Groser, Minister Responsible for
International Climate Change Negotiations, New Zealand

Zhenhua Xie, Minister, Vice-Chairman, National
Development and Reform Commission, China

Todd Stern, Special Envoy for Climate Change, US

Pablo Vieira, Vice-Minister of Environment and Sustainable
Development, Colombia

Claudia Salerno Caldera, Vice-Minister of Foreign
Affairs, Venezuela

Jiko Fatafehi Luveni, Minister for Social Welfare, Women
and Poverty Alleviation, Fiji

Phil Hogan, Minister of the Environment, Community and
Local Government, Ireland

Harry Kalaba, Minister of Lands, Natural
Resources and Environmental Protection,
Zambia

Doris Leuthard, Federal Councillor for
Environment, Transport, Energy and
Communications, Switzerland

Alexander Bedritsky, Advisor to the
President, Special Envoy for Climate, the
Russian Federation

COP 19/CMP 9 HIGH-LEVEL SEGMENT

Marina Shvangiradze, Georgia (center), presided over the afternoon High-Level Segment

Faamoetauloa Taito Faale Tumaalii, Minister of Natural
Resources and Environment, Samoa

Marie-Pierre Gramaglia, Minister of Public Works, the
Environment and Urban Development, Monaco

Ephraim Kamuntu, Minister of Water and Environment,
Uganda

Kenred Dorsett, Minister of the Environment and Housing,
Bahamas

SNAPSHOTS AROUND COP 19

Youth participants in protest

Protesters being escorted by UN Security

Civil society protesters exiting the COP 19/CMP 9 venue

Delegates from the US and Singapore consulting

L-R: Environment Integrity Group Ministers Marie-Pierre Gramaglia, Minister of Public Works, the Environment and Urban
Development, Monaco; Marlies Amann-Marxer, Minister of Infrastructure, Environment and Sports, Liechtenstein; Yoon
Seongkyu, Minister of Environment; Juan José Guerra Abud, Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico; and
Doris Leuthard, Federal Councillor for Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications, Switzerland

Delegates from the Philippines

Jamil Ahmad, UNEP, reading information at the COP 20/CMP 10 booth

L-R: John Kiare, UNFCCC Secretariat, and Krzysztof Ślatala, COP 19/CMP 9 local Technical Staff

Massoumeh Ebtekar, Vice-President and Head of the Department of Environment, Iran

Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director, Greenpeace International, being interviewed by the press