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Paris Climate Change Conference - November 2015 (UNFCCC COP 21)

30 November - 15 December 2015 | Paris, France

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A View of the Eiffel Tower in Paris

Youth advocate for delegates to 'do the right move' to reach a climate agreement

On Saturday, 5 December, the 12th part of the second session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP 2-12) contact group convened in the morning, followed by the ADP closing plenary, which adopted its conclusions and forwarded a draft agreement and decision to the Conference of the Parties (COP) under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The COP met in the evening to hear the report of the ADP and decide on the mode of work going forward.

Informal consultations under the COP and the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP) continued throughout the day.

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ADP 2-12 Closing Plenary


L-R: UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres; Laurence Tubiana, COP 21/CMP 11 Presidency; Marcela Main Sancha, ADP Secretary; ADP Co-Chairs Daniel Reifsnyder, US, and Ahmed Djoghlaf, Algeria; Halldór Thorgeirsson, UNFCCC Director for Strategy; and Yang Liu, ADP Rapporteur

ADP Co-Chair Daniel Reifsnyder, US

ADP Co-Chair Ahmed Djoghlaf, Algeria

Laurence Tubiana, COP 21/CMP 11 Presidency

UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres



Su Wei, China

Franz Perrez, Switzerland, speaking on behalf of the Environmental
Integrity Group (EIG)

Peter Woolcott, Australia, speaking on behalf of the Umbrella Group


Giza Gaspar Martins, Angola, speaking on behalf of the
Least Developed Countries (LDCs)

Nozipho Mxakato-Diseko, South Africa, speaking
on behalf of the G-77/China


Gurdial Singh, Malaysia, speaking on behalf of the Like-Minded Developing Countries (LMDCs)

Ayman Shasly, Saudi Arabia, speaking on behalf of the Arab Group

Sarah Blau, EU

Amjad Abdulla, Maldives, speaking on behalf of the Alliance of Small
Island States (AOSIS)

Nagmeldin Goutbi Elhassan, Sudan, speaking
on behalf of the African Group

Rita Mishaan, Guatemala, speaking on behalf of Independent Alliance of Latin America and the Caribbean (AILAC)

Claudia Salerno, Venezuela, speaking on behalf of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA)

Delegates gather for the ADP closing session

Pedro Luis Pedroso Cuesta, Cuba

Jo Tyndall, New Zealand


Claudia Salerno, Venezuela

Ian Fry, Tuvalu



Joseph Africano Bartel, South Sudan

Executive Secretary UNFCCC Christiana Figueres; Franz Perrez, Switzerland; ADP Co-Chair Daniel Reifsnyder, US; and Halldór Thorgeirsson, UNFCCC Director for Strategy

Delegates from Poland

Su Wei, China, speaks with Laurence Tubiana, COP 21/CMP 11 Presidency, and ADP Co-Chair Ahmed Djoghlaf, Algeria

Marcela Main Sancha, ADP Secretary, speaks with Abdullah K. Tawlah, Saudi Arabia

COP Plenary


View of the dais during the COP plenary

COP 21/CMP 11 President Laurent Fabius, Foreign Minister, France

ADP Co-Chairs Daniel Reifsnyder, US,
and Ahmed Djoghlaf, Algeria


COP 21/CMP 11 President Laurent Fabius, Foreign Minister, France, holds up the Draft Paris Outcome submitted to the COP by the ADP


Oleg Shamanov, Russian Federation

Tony de Brum, Marshall Islands

Nozipho Mxakato-Diseko, South Africa, speaking on behalf of the G-77/China


Mehmet Emin Birpınar, Turkey

Krishna Chandra Paudel, Nepal

Rita Mishaan, Guatemala,
speaking on behalf of AILAC


Action Day


COP 21/CMP 11 President Laurent Fabius, Foreign Minister, France, welcomes delegates to Action Day

UNFCCC Executive Secretary
Christiana Figueres

Janos Pasztor, UN Assistant Secretary-General on Climate Change

COP 20/CMP 10 President Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, Minister of Environment, Peru


Ségolène Royal, Minister of the Environment, France


Civil Society Actions


Members of civil society advocate for more attention to be paid to loss and damage by building an 'environmental jenga' tower

Members of civil society encourage delegates to plant trees as a way of cleaning the air


Members of the Korea Green Foundation promote clean air, stating 'there is no border in the sky'

Youth perform a dance-off, encouraging delegates to 'do the right move' to deal with climate change



Youth dressed as a climate vulnerable polar bear 'swims' to the finish line of reaching an agreement at COP 21


Around the Venue


Delegates walk between the venues at Le Bourget

Delegates meet informally

A large tree in the Climate Generations area
carries messages for delegates

Members of civil society leave messages for negotiators




Colorful pillars line the entrance to the Climate Generations area of Le Bourget
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