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United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali
3-14 December 2007
Bali, Indonesia |
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| Highlights from Tuesday, 11 December: |
Delegates met in contact groups and informal consultations throughout Tuesday in an effort to conclude work under the SBI and SBSTA. On Tuesday afternoon and evening, the SBSTA and SBI convened, working late into Tuesday night. Both SBI and SBSTA adopted conclusions as well as various draft decisions that will be forwarded to the COP and COP/MOP. The AWG also met, although it was not able to conclude its work, and will convene for a final plenary later in the week after further consultations.
Photo: Japanese Environment Minister Ichiro Kamoshita cuts the birthday cake for the Kyoto Protocol's 10 year anniversary. |
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| Birthday celebrations for the Kyoto Protocol's 10 year anniversary |
| The Kyoto Protocol: 10 years from adoption: Left to right: Co-Chairs Japanese Environment Minister
Ichiro Kamoshita, Raul Estrada, who chaired the Committee of the Whole during the Kyoto COP 3 negotiations, former UNFCCC Exeuctive Secretary Michael Zammit Cutajar, Laurent Corbier, International Chamber of Commerce, and Bill Hare, Climate Action Network
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Raul Estrada and Michael Zammit Cutajar |
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Giant birthday cake in celebration of Kyoto's 10 year anniversary. |
Minister Kamoshita singing happy birthday to the Kyoto Protocol and taking the first bite of the birthday cake. |
| Vitaly
Matsarski, UNFCCC Secretariat, wears his badge from COP 3 in commemoration of Kyoto's 10 year anniversary (left). Children enjoying the 10 year anniversary birthday cake (right). |
| Reception organized by the KIKO Network, together with Japanese organizations: UN special envoys on climate change Ricardo Lagos and Gro Harlem Brundlandt (left photo) and Secretary General Ban Ki-moon during the reception. |
| Ban Ki-moon is presented with a 10 year anniversary pin by a youth delegate (left) and with a Kyoto Protocol banner (right). |
| Climate Action Network press conference on Kyoto and the ten years since in the climate process. |
| SBSTA Coordinator Roberto Acosta and SBSTA Chair Kishan Kumarsingh |
| AWG Vice-Chair Outi Berghäll, Finland, AWG Chair Leon Charles, Grenada, and Henning Wuester, Secretariat |
| Launch of UNDP Human Development Report |
| Secretary General Ban Ki-moon during the UNDP event launching the 2008 Human Development Report. Pictured with UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner and Ad Melkert, UNDP Associate Administrator (right). |
| Members of the Secretariat hard at work. |
| Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, with Arba Diallo, former Executive Secretary of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (left). |
| Oxfam displays a chart showing that meeting the most urgent needs of the LDCs will cost between US$1-2 billion (left). Delegates from Tuvalu, Maldives and Bangladesh during the Oxfam presentation (right). |
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