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Accra Climate Change Talks
21-27 August 2008
Accra, Ghana |
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Highlights from Tuesday, 26 August |
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| On Tuesday morning, delegates convened in a contact group on mitigation and its associated means of implementation, under the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA), and in AWG-LCA informal consultations on the 2009 work programme. Informal consultations were also convened under the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP) on "other issues," and on land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF). In the afternoon, two AWG-LCA contact groups met on adaptation and its associated means of implementation; and on delivering on technology and finance, including consideration of institutional arrangements. An AWG-KP contact group on LULUCF also met. The AWG-KP contact group on flexible mechanisms convened in the afternoon and evening, while a "friends of the Chair" group met during the afternoon session. Photo: Musicians at the arts and crafts fair being held during the conference. |
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| A view of the main hall where the AWG-LCA contact group sessions are being held |
| Delivering on Technology and Finance |
| G-77/China delegates consulting (left photo) and AWG-LCA Chair Luiz Machado and Vice-Chair Michael Zammit Cutajar consult with UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer and Halldor Thorgeirsson, UNFCCC Secretariat |
| Wide v iews of the plenary hall |
| Mitigation and Means of Implementation |
| Mexico (right photo) underlined historical responsibility and noted the differing capacities among countries to address climate change.
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| Adaptation and Means of Implementation |
| Roberto Acosta, UNFCCC Secretariat, AWG-LCA Vice-Chair and Contact Group Chair Michael Zammit Cutajar, Youssef Nassef, UNFCCC Secretariat |
| Peru (left ) described the impacts of climate change in his country, specifying effects on water and energy supplies. Delegates from AOSIS, South Africa and Kenya consulting outside the conference room (right photo). |
| LULUCF Contact Group Co-Chairs Brian Smith and Marcelo Rocha (left photo) and Jim Penman, speaking for the EU on LULUCF |
EU delegates consulting outside the meeting room where the Friends of the Chair group on other issues was convening (left photo). Gary Ken Creighton, Democratic Republic of the Congo, intervenes during the LULUCF discussions (right).
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| UNFCCC Media Training Workshop |
| Andre Rodrigues Aquino, World Bank (left photo) provides an overview of the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF), while Maria San-Sanchez, UNFCCC, discusses reducing emissions for deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (right photo). |
Launch of the report on "Reforming Energy Subsidies: Opportunities to Contribute to the Climate Change Agenda"
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| Arts and Crafts Fair for conference participants across from the conference center. |
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Related IISDRS Coverage
- Bonn Climate Change Conference 2008 (SB 28, AWG-LCA 2, AWG-KP 5, part 2), 2-13 June, 2008, Bonn, Germany)
- 28th Session of the IPCC, 9-10 April 2008, Budapest, Hungary
- First Session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-Term Cooperative Action under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Fifth Session of the Ad Hoc Working Group under the Kyoto Protocol, 31 March-4 April 2008, Bangkok, Thailand
- UNFCCC Expert Group Meeting on Socioeconomic Information under the Nairobi Work Programme (NWP), 10-12 March 2008, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
- UNFCCC Expert Group Meeting on Methods and Tools and on Data and Observations under the Nairobi Work Programme (NWP), 4-7 March 2008, Mexico City, Mexico
- UN Climate Change Conference in Bali (COP 13), 3-14 December 2007, Bali, Indonesia
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