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Poznan Climate Change Conference
1-12 December 2008
Poznan, Poland |
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Highlights from Wednesday, 10 December
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On Wednesday afternoon and evening, the AWG-LCA, AWG-KP, SBI and SBSTA reconvened in plenary sessions in order to conclude their work. The plenary sessions followed numerous informal consultations and contact groups aimed at finalizing negotiations on individual agenda items. By late Wednesday evening, all four bodies had concluded their work in Poznan. Above photo: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and COP President
Maciej Nowicki. |
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| Contact groups and informals met throughout the day |
| Contact group on matters relating to Articles 3.14 and 2.3 of the Kyoto Protocol: Maria Gutierrez, UNFCCC, and Contact Group Co-Chairs Kristin Tilley, Australia, and Kamel Djemouai, Algeria |
| Contact group on reducing emissions from deforestation in developing countries: Delegations of Papua New Guinea and the UK (left photo) and Contact Group Co-Chairs Audun Rosland, Norway, and Lilian Portillo, Paraguay (right photo). |
| UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at COP 14 |
| COP President
Maciej Nowicki with UN Special Envoy for Climate Change and former Chilean President Ricardo Lagos (left). |
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with Danish Environment Minister Connie Hedegaard (left) and Australian Environment Minister Penny Wong (right)
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| Janos
Pasztor, Director of the UN Secretary-General's Climate Change Support Team, with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left). |
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon meets with
Rajendra K Pachauri, Chair of the IPCC. |
Closing plenaries of the AWG-KP, AWG-LCA, SBSTA and SBI |
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| Richard Kinley, UNFCCC, AWG-KP Chair Harald Dovland, Claudio Forner, UNFCCC, and AWG-KP Vice-Chair
Mama Konate during the closing plenary of the AWG-KP. |
| Chair Luis Machado gavels the AWG-LCA to a close. |
| SBI Chair Bagher Asadi (left photo) and Selwin Hart, Barbados, intervenes during the AWG-LCA (right). |
| Signing of COP 15 Agreement with the Government of Denmark |
| Danish Environment Minister Connie Hedegaard and UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer |
| World Bank press conference on the global financial and climate crisis and a new report on Latin American solutions. |
UNFCCC Executive Secretary meets with Nobel laureate Wangari Mathai |
| NGOs protest against using nuclear power, calling it "an obstacle to climate protection and a Mickey Mouse climate solution". |
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Relevant links
Related IISDRS Coverage
- 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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