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Bonn Climate Change Talks
29 March - 8 April 2009
Bonn, Germany |
Highlights from Thursday, 2 April |
On Thursday, AWG-LCA contact groups met to consider mitigation, shared vision and adaptation. The AWG-KP convened contact groups on Annex I emission reductions, flexibility mechanisms, LULUCF and potential consequences of response measures.
Photo: G-77/China members meet outside the AWG-KP contact group meeting on Annex I emission reductions. |
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| AWG-LCA contact group on shared vision |
| The contact group on shared vision was chaired by Antonio La Viña, the Philippines, who
invited parties' comments on three possible components of a negotiating text, suggesting that a shared vision should be based on implementation of the Convention, and include principles and the four building blocks. |
| Thorir Ibsen, Iceland (center), stressed a forward-looking perspective and gender balance. |
AWG-LCA contact group on adaptation |
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AWG-LCA contact group on mitigation by developing countries |
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South Africa (left)
opposed the use of the term “advanced developing countries.” Pakistan (center) noted the need to clarify the functions of the proposed register. Pakistan with AWG-LCA Chair Michael Zammit Cutajar (right photo).
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| Japan supported halving global emissions by 2050, while India (left) stressed that the Convention does not reference legally binding emission commitments for developing countries. AWG-LCA Chair Michael Zammit Cutajar. |
| AWG-KP contact group on LULUCF |
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| Left to right: Co-Chairs Marcelo Rocha, Brazil, and Bryan Smith, New Zealand, and Maria Sanz, UNFCCC Secretariat. |
| AWG-KP Contact Group on Annex I Emission Reductions |
| Delegates milling about outside the contact group meeting room waiting for the G-77/China to conclude their lunchtime meeting. |
| MJ Mace, Micronesia (left photo center), speaking for AOSIS, as well as for Argentina, Benin, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, the Gambia, Guatemala, Ecuador, El Salvador, Kenya, Mozambique, Panama, Peru, Senegal, Togo and Uganda, stated that Annex I countries, whether or not parties to the Protocol, must collectively reduce their emissions by at least 45% from 1990 levels by 2020, and by more than 95% from 1990 levels by 2050. |
| AWG-KP Contact Group on Flexibility Mechanisms |
| Co-Chairs Gertraud Wollansky, Austria, and Christiana Figueres, Costa Rica. |
| Side Event on Options for MRV and the legal form of a post-2012 agreement: organized by the Pew Center on Global Climate |
Left to right: Dan Bodansky, University of Georgia, Clare Breidenich, Pew Center, Sebastian Oberthur, Germany, and Harald Winkler, South Africa |
Side event on Local Government Climate Roadmap: From Bali to Poznan to Copenhagen: organized by ICLEI |
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Relevant links
Related IISDRS Coverage
- UNFCCC Technical Workshop on Integrating Practices, Tools and Systems for Climate Risk Assessment and Management and Disaster Risk Reduction Strategies into National Policies and Programmes, 10-12 March, Havana, Cuba
- Third International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation, 18-24 February, 2009, Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Poznan Climate Change Conference, 1-12 December, 2008, Poznan, Poland
- 29th Session of the IPCC,
31 August - 4 September 2008, Geneva, Switzerland
- Accra Climate Change Talks 2008 (AWG-KP 6 and AWG-LCA 3), 21-27 August, Accra Ghana
- 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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