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Sixth Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Resumed)
Bonn, Germany; 16-27 July 2001
 

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Photo (right): WWF unveils a solid ice sculpture of the globe, which symbolizes global warming and is intended to encourage Ministers to accelarate efforts to finalize and ratify the Protocol.


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Photo highlights from Tuesday, 17 July

Ministers arrive for high level negotiations while across town, protesters are taken down by riot police (Protest photos courtesy of Amarjit Sidhu)

The press zooms in on the US inside the Maritim hotel; riot police hold protesters at bay
Photos from the opening of the high-level segment
Jan Pronk with Barbel Dieckmann, Mayor of Bonn (left)
GEF CEO Mohamed El-Ashry, UNEP Executive Director Klaus Toepfer, Bonn Mayor Barbal Die, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Michael Zammit Cutajar, COP President Jan Pronk, COP Secretary Richard Kinley, IPCC Chair Robert Watson and UNFCCC Deputy Executive Secretary Tahar Hadj-Sadok
Jan Pronk, Michael Zammit Cutajar, Mohamed El-Ashry
COP President Jan Pronk, Michael Zammit Cutajar, and Barbel Dieckmann, Mayor of Bonn
Youth address the High-level Plenary
The press waits for Japan and maintains a strong presence outside
Minister Tuala Sale Tagaloa, Samoa, Department of Lands, Surveys and Environment, Environment Minister Milos Kuzvart, Czech Republic, and Olivier Deleuze, Environment Minister, Belgium
Australian Environment Minister Robert Hill, Alan Nymark, Deputy Minister for the Environment, Canada, and Paula Dobriansky, Under Secretary for Global Affairs, US Department of State
Yoriko Kawaguchi, Japanese Environment Minister and Ambassador Bagher Asadi, Iran
Philippe Roch, Swiss State Secretary, Swiss Agency for Environment, Forest and Landscape, Ambassador Beat Nobs, Switzerland, and Swedish Environment Minister Kjell Larsson
Guangsheng Gao, China, and Colombian Environment Minister Juan Mayr
Jan Pronk, Robert Watson, Chair of the IPCC, and Executive Secretary Cutajar

The Fossil of the Day Award (www.fossil-of-the-day.org)

Canada, Australia and Japan all received awards on Thursday: Canada for its position to limit public participation on CDM projects; Canada and Australia to strip biodiversity and environmental provisions from all sinks and CDM decisions; and Canada, Japana and Australia for demanding the inclusion of any and all sink activities in the CDM.

Morning Plenary to hear reports from the Co-Chairs of the negotiating groups
Philip Gwage and Harald Dovland, Co-Chairs of the negotiating group on LULUCF, and the Indian delegation
Co-Chair of the negotiating group on finance John Ashe consults with Canada and Australia (left) and the Cook Islands announces its ratification of the Kyoto Protocol
Bagher Asadi and Moahmmed Reza Salamat, Iran, and Co-Chair John Ashe, and Co-Chair of the negotiating group on mechanisms
Co-Chair of the negotiating group on Mechanisms Raul Estrada speaks with Everton Vargas, Brazil (left) and Andrej Kranjc, Co-Chair of the finance group
Cutajar, Pronk and Kinley

Press Conferences

Indigenous Peoples provided a briefing on their positions on the UNFCCC

Panel (left to right): Patrina Dumaru, Pacific Concerns Resource Centre, Fiji, Raymond de Chavez, TEBTEBBA Foundation, Philipinnes, Alfred Ilenre, Ethnic Minority and Indigenous Rights Organizations of Frica, Nigeria, Sebastiao Manchineri, Coordinating Body for the Indigenous Peoples Organizations of the Amazon Basin, Brazil, Moderator Hector Huertas, Indigenous Peoples of Meso America on Climate Change, Panama, and Robert Gough, Intertribal Council on Utility Policy, United States

Norine Smith, Assistant Deputy Minister, Policy and Communications, Environment Canada
EC Commissioner for the Environment Margot Wallstrom with Olivier Deleuze, Environment Minister, Belgium
 
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