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Eleventh session of the Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change
Convention and first meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol
Palais de Congrès, Montréal, Canada | 28 November-9 December 2005
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Contact Groups Continue in Montreal
On Friday, delegates convened in numerous contact groups and informal
consultations to discuss, inter alia, the financial mechanism,
technology transfer, adaptation, mitigation, LDCs, the CDM Executive
Board's report, implications of the CDM for other environmental
treaties, the Kyoto Protocol's international transaction log,
research and systematic observation,
Annex I communications, compliance, and the IPCC Special
Report on carbon dioxide capture and storage. Above: Delegates
conferred with co-chair Karsten Sach of the contact group on finance.
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Friday, 2 December
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Contact Groups
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In the contact group on adaptation, co-chaired by Helen Plume, New
Zealand, and Kishan Kumarsingh, Trinidad and Tobago,
delegates proceeded through the
Co-Chairs' draft annex on the SBSTA programme of work on adaptation,
addressing specific activities in the programme. Many Parties
underscored the need for a more focused approach, engaging outside
experts and users, and encouraging long-term cooperation.
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Renate Christ, IPCC Secretariat, looked over documents.
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Australia noted the need for multiple workshops to stimulate ongoing
collaborative work.
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The G-77/China called for a two-track approach that could address more
urgent needs.
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The contact group on education, training and public awareness reconvened
late Friday morning to discuss Chair Crispin D'Auvergne's revised draft
SBI conclusions. Delegates completed their work and approved the text
after making several further changes.
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Participants in the contact group on technology transfer, co-chaired by
Holger Liptow, Germany, and Carlos Fuller, Belize, engaged in a
paragraph-by-paragraph discussion on the draft. On EGTT's 2006 Work
Programme delegates agreed to all text, including language on
nominations and a special working session, with the exception of a
paragraph on public technologies.
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Co-chaired by Rawleston Moore, Barbados, and Karsten Sach, Germany,
The contact group on the financial mechanism met throughout the day and
in numerous informal consultations, taking up issues relating to the
Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF), Decision 5/CP.8, the report of the
GEF, and the Adaptation Fund.
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The contact group on Least Developed Countries, co-chaired by Dechen Tsering,
Bhutan, and Aloisia Wörgetter, Austria, met to consider a revised
draft decision on the mandate of the LDCs Expert Group (LEG). Discussions
focused on a paragraph requesting the LEG to develop a work programme
for consideration by SBI.
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Co-chair Toshiyuki Sakamoto of the contact group on mitigation
led paragraph-by-paragraph discussions of the text.
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Japan intervened during the mitigation contact group.
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Delegates from Brazil and the EU conferred during the contact group on
mitigation.
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Around COP 11 and COP/MOP 1
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China intervened during the contact group on education.
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Delegates conferred outside the contact group on the financial
mechanism.
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Competition has been fierce for the "Fossil of the Day" awards.
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Young delegates conferred with co-chair of the contact group on finance and
Secretariat staff.
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