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United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali
3-14 December 2007
Bali, Indonesia |
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| Saturday, 15 December: 2:30am: BREAKING NEWS: SMALL GROUP AGREES TEXT; PLENARY SET TO MEET AT 8:00 AM BALI TIME |
The small group of ministers and high-level officials has reportedly brokered a deal just after 2:00 am local time. The text would start a Bali roadmap leading to a post-2012 agreement in Copenhagen in 2009. The roadmap would include a "twin-track" process under the Convention and the Protocol.
However, the deal still needs to be considered by all parties in plenary starting at 8:00 am tomorrow.
Photo: German Environment Minister
Sigmar Gabriel followed by the press as he leaves the meeting room.
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| The press surrounds delegates as they leave the conference room (left) and UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer speaks with Richard Kinley and Salwa
Dallalah, UNFCCC Secretartiat (right). |
| Friday, 14 December: 10:37: Negotiations Go Late Into Friday Night |
| Negotiations in two small, high-level groups were continuing late on Friday night, with slow progress reported. The latest news suggests that talks will continue throughout the night, with hopes of brokering a deal by Saturday morning. |
Press outside the room where ministers are meeting a small group. |
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| 8:30 pm: Talks Go Down To the Wire |
| As of 6:00 pm, high-level ministerial negotiations were still taking place behind closed doors, with negotiators apparently still disagreeing over preambular text, including language on Annex I targets from the IPCC and AWG. At 6:30pm, the COP reconvened, followed at 7:15pm by the COP/MOP, to adopt many of their items. However, key outstanding issues under the Bali roadmap remain, and high-level consultations reconvened at 8:30pm with same small group of countries. |
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer with Jim Connaughton and Paula Dobriansky, US, and Robert Owen Jones, Australia
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| Highlights from Friday, 14 December |
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, speaking for ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability on behalf of local governments, speaks during the high-level segment.
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Kyung-wha Kang, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, UNHCR, and Julia Marton-Lefevre, Director-General, IUCN (right)
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Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York, and Michelle Wyman, ICLEI (left photo) and the delegation of the United Arab Emirates (right photo)
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| Ministerial level negotiations |
| The dais during an evening plenary session to adopt various items. |
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Yvo de Boer unfolding a chair presented to him by South Africa as a joke to compensate for the Secretariat's budget deficit.
Left photo and photo below: Kompas Daily/Lasti Kurnia |
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COP President Witoelar gavels through decisions
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| UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer and John Hay, UNFCCC Spokesperson |
| New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and London's Deputy Mayor Nicky Gavron |
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