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Bonn Climate Change Conference - October 2015
Parties returned to Bonn disappointed following release of an ADP Co-Chairs’ text that many found unbalanced and unacceptable as a basis for further negotiations. They engaged in a text re-compilation exercise, followed by a painstaking process of streamlining and clustering with only five weeks to consider their options ahead of Paris.
12th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNCCD (COP 12)
What some viewed as an intrepid direction for the UNCCD to pursue in years past turned into a potentially “game changing” accomplishment when COP 12 swiftly adopted a decision deciding that striving to achieve SDG target 15.3 is a “strong vehicle for driving implementation of the UNCCD,” and inviting countries to set voluntary targets to achieve land degradation neutrality.
42nd Session of the IPCC (IPCC-42)
The Panel elected Hoesung Lee of the Republic of Korea as IPCC Chair for the sixth assessment cycle, along with oother members of the IPCC Bureau and the Task Force Bureau.