Summary
On Monday, 14 November, the UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC) continued in Marrakech, Morocco. Throughout the day, contact groups and informal consultations took place under the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the COP serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP) and the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement (APA). In the evening the contact group on agenda Items 3-8 convened under the APA. A joint Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI)/Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) informal consultations also took place.
The closing plenaries of the 45th sessions of the SBI and the SBSTA, and the second part of the first session of the APA took place in the evening. The APA suspended at 11:23pm. The SBI and SBSTA are expected to close on Tuesday morning.
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Informal Consultations throughout the Day
Informal consultations on Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement (APA) agenda item 8:
further matters related to implementation of the Paris Agreement
COP informal consultations on linkages between the Technology Mechanism and the Financial Mechanism of the Convention
COP informal consultations on the proposal from Papua New Guinea and Mexico to amend Articles 7 and 18 of the Convention
COP informal consultations on matters relating to finance: sixth review of the Financial Mechanism
Informal consultations by the Presidency on the first session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement (CMA) 1
COP informal consultations on matters relating to finance: report of the Green Climate
Fund (GCF) to the COP and guidance to the GCF
First Working Group Session of the Multilateral Assessment
View of the dais during the session
Mark Sinclair, New Zealand
SBI Chair Tomasz Chruszczow, Poland
Peer Stiansen, Norway
Reed Schuler, US
Sylwia Waśniewska, Poland
Markus Nauser, Switzerland
Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) Closing Plenary
View of the dais during the SBSTA closing plenary
SBSTA Chair Carlos Fuller, Belize
Kanchana Patarachoke, Thailand, speaking
on behalf of the G-77/China
Ismail Raushan, Maldives, speaking on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)
Lassina Coulibaly, Mali, speaking on behalf of the African Group
María Amparo Martínez Arroyo, Mexico, speaking on behalf of the Environmental Integrity Group (EIG)
Gloria Young, Panama
Alicia Ilaga, the Philippines
Tunga Bhadra Rai, speaking on
behalf of Indigenous Peoples
Anne-Beth Skrede, TUNGOs
Eddy Pérez, Climate Action Network (CAN)
Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) Closing Plenary
View of the dais during the SBI closing plenary
SBI Chair Tomasz Chruszczow, Poland
Sophie Davies, Australia, speaking on
behalf of the Umbrella Group
Svitlana Grynchuk, Ukraine
Rebecca Chien, YOUNGOs
Kwon Sei-joong, Republic of Korea, speaking on behalf of the EIG
Theo De Jager, Farmers
Daniela Rangel Esparza, Women and Gender
APA Closing Plenary
View of the dais during the APA closing plenary
APA Co-Chairs Sarah Baashan, Saudi Arabia,
and Jo Tyndall, New Zealand
Manasvi Srisodapol, Thailand, speaking on
behalf of the G-77/China
Franz Perrez, Switzerland
Collin Beck, Solomon Islands
Peter Horne, Australia, speaking on behalf of the Umbrella Group
Ayman Shasly, Saudi Arabia
Amjad Abdulla, Maldives, speaking on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)
Gabriela Fischerová, EU
Adriana Murillo, Costa Rica, speaking on behalf of the Independent Association of Latin America and the Caribbean (AILAC)
Diego Pacheco Balanza, Bolivia, speaking on behalf of the Like-Minded Developing Countries (LMDCs)
Civil Society Demonstrations throughout the Day
Members of civil society call for eliminating the use of fossil fuels
Members of civil society advocate for using 100% renewable energy to stay below the 1.5°C limit
Youth from New Zealand advocate for an increase in ambition, not emissions
Around the Venue
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa congratulates Austrian youth delegates on their 'green footprints' initiative aimed at increasing the participation of children in climate change action
High-level event hosted by the COP 22 President to discuss progress made in advancing national adaptation plans (NAPs)
Delegates huddle between sessions
Delegates speak informally
Ismail El Gizouli, Sudan
Inger Andersen, International Union for Conservation
of Nature (IUCN) Director General
Press briefing with Jonathan Pershing, US Special Envoy for Climate Change
UN Security around the venue
Chizuru Aoki, Global Environment Facility (GEF) and
Tosi Mpanu-Mpanu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Art made from recycled tires
The supermoon rises over the COP 22 venue
