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United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali
3-14 December 2007
Bali, Indonesia |
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| Highlights from Thursday, 6 December |
Contact groups and informal consultations were held throughout the day on a wide range of issues, including: the AWG, Second review of the Protocol under Article 9; long-term cooperative action under the Convention; the Adaptation Fund; Annex I and non-Annex I national communications; the Buenos Aires programme of work on adaptation and response measures (Decision 1/CP.10); capacity building; carbon capture and storage under the CDM; education, training and public awareness (Convention Article 6); the financial mechanism; LDCs; the Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation; privileges and immunities; reducing emissions from deforestation; and technology transfer.
Photo: Used to getting all the attention in the context of global warming, polar bears hold picket signs and protest on behalf of humans. |
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| Contact group on progress on the implementation of the Buenos Aires Programme of Work (decision 1/CP.10): (left to right) Co-Chairs Philip Gwage, Uganda, and Shayleen Thompson, Australia, and
Annett Möhner and Youssef Nassef, UNFCCC Secretariat |
| Bubu Pateh Jallow, Gambia, co-chaired the contact group on the financial mechanism (left). A view of the room of the contact group on implementation of Buenos Aires Programme of Work (decision 1/CP.10) (right). |
| Contact group on the Second Review of the Kyoto Protocol pursuant to its Article 9: scope and content: (left to right): Co-Chairs Adrian Macey, New Zealand, and Raphael de Azeredo, Brazil, with Henning Woester, Secretariat. |
Amjed Abdulla, Maldives, chaired the contact group on least developed countries (LDCs) (left). Moussa Diakhité, Secretariat, speaks with a delegate after the adjournment of the LDC contact group (right) |
Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer meets with observer organizations |
| Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer meets with observer constituencies |
| Members of observer organizations during the meeting with Yvo de Boer (left). Yvo de Boer shakes hands with Nick Campbell, International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), representing the business community (right). |
| Barbara Black, UNFCCC Secretariat's liaison with observer organizations, speaks with delegates (left). Benito Mueller, Oxford University, representing research and independent NGOs and organizations (RINGOs), and Nick Campbell, ICC, representing business and industry organizations (BINGOs) (right). |
| WWF: launch of the Amazon and Climate Change Report: (left to right) Martin Hiller, Daniel Nepstad, Karen Suassuna, and Hans Verolme |
| Dan Nepstad, Woods Hole Research Centre and report author, explains the ecological and climatic tipping points of the world's largest tropical rainforest, and practical preventive measures |
| Janos Pasztor, Director, UNEP Environment Management Group, and Lucien Royer, Director of Occupational Health and Environment and Sustainable Development, ITUC, discussing green jobs as the "silver lining" to climate change. |
| Press conference on the Nairobi Framework: (left to right) Daniele Violetti, UNFCCC Secretariat, Konrad von Ritter, World Bank, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer, and Yannick Glemareck, UNDP |
| Polar bears call on Bali Climate Change Conference to save the humans |
Around the conference center |
David Runnalls, President of IISD, with Kimo Goree, Director, IISD Reporting Services (left). Emil Salim, Special Envoy of the President of Indonesia, in consultations (right).
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| Martin Khor, Third World Network, with Jamil Ahmad, Pakistan, Chair of the G-77/China. |
| Photos illustrating climate change and its impacts are exhibited throughout the conference center (left). A delegate checking the daily schedule on one of the many TV screens positioned in the conference center (right). |
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