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Poznan Climate Change Conference
1-12 December 2008
Poznan, Poland |
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Highlights from Wednesday, 3 December
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On Wednesday, the COP/MOP resumed initial consideration of its agenda and the AWG-LCA concluded the workshop on a shared vision. The AWG-KP held a workshop on mitigation potentials and SBI Chair Asadi convened a round table on adverse effects and response measures. Contact groups were held on technology transfer, non-Annex I communications, REDD, the Nairobi Work Programme, the financial mechanism, decision 1/CP.10 (adaptation and response measures), and the second review of the Protocol under Article 9. Photo: A view of the dais during the morning's COP/MOP plenary.
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| John Kilani,
Director, Sustainable Development Mechanisms Programme, UNFCCC, Richard Kinley, UNFCCC Deputy Executive Secretary, COP 14 President Maciej Nowicki, Polish Environment Minister, and Abiodun Bashua, Secretary of the COP. |
CDM Executive Board Chair Rajesh Kumar Sethi, India (left), presented the Board's annual report. Turkey during the CMP plenary.
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Adaptation Fund Board Chair Richard Muyungi, Tanzania (left) presented the Board's report. Bangladesh (right) asked for clarification on how "special attention" would be given to LDCs and African developing countries under the Adaptation Fund.
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| AWG-LCA: Workshop on a shared vision |
| UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer, Halldor Thorgeirsson, UNFCCC, and AWG-LCA Chair Luiz Machado (left photo). The US said
a shared vision should be optimistic, pragmatic and reflect evolving scientific and economic realities. |
| Bernaditas Muller, G-77/China (left), said a shared vision must meet all the commitments that parties have agreed to under the Convention. Halldor Thorgeirsson, UNFCCC, and AWG-LCA Chair Luiz Machado (right). |
AWG-KP Workshop on Mitgation Potential |
| Ian Fry, Tuvalu, for AOSIS (second from right), urged factoring in the costs of inaction as well as action, and said Annex I parties should focus on domestic emission reductions. He proposed not expanding LULUCF under the CDM, 1990 remain as the base year to ensure comparability, and the second commitment period should run from 2013-2017. |
| Claudio Forner, UNFCCC Secretariat (left), presented the updated technical paper on mitigation potoentials. Artur Runge-Metzger, EU (right), warned that reduction goals could be weakened depending on the rules adopted for LULUCF, carbon credits and bunker fuels. He proposed capability, potential, responsibility and national circumstances as principles for comparability of efforts. |
Former IPCC Working Group III Co-Chair Bert Metz (left photo) showed how assumptions about emission reductions by Annex I countries affect action by non-Annex I countries for different stabilization scenarios. He explained that 25-40% reductions from Annex I by 2020 would mean a 15-30% deviation from the baseline for non-Annex I parties to achieve 450 ppm, and 0-20% deviation for 550 ppm. Barbara Buchner, IEA (right photo), said the reference scenario without new policies is unsustainable and would lead to 750 ppm and a 6ºC temperature rise. She identified the need for "an enormous energy transformation" involving changes in all regions and sectors. |
| The Polish delegation (left photo). Participants sit where they can find a seat in the packed meeting room, often on the floor (right photo). |
| SBI Roundtable on Adverse Effects and Response Measures |
| Festus Luboyera, UNFCCC, SBI Chair Bagher Asadi, Lara Kriegsheim, UNFCCC, and
Youssef Nassef, UNFCCC |
| Co-chairs Audun Rosland, Norway, and Lilian Portillo, Paraguay (left photo), and a view of the contact group room. |
| Host Country Pavilion--Technologies for Climate Protection Exhibition |
| The government of Poland's exhibition showcases 120 of the most innovative technological devices and installations that can help combat climate change. The exhibition is organized in five thematic areas: energy saving, renewable energy sources, environmentally friendly transport and adaptation to climate change. |
| Solar powered dancing flowers! |
| Other activities and press conferences |
| Launch of the Green Finger Campaign, where COP participants are invited to paint what they would like to see happen on climate change. The event is being organized by WWF and International Youth. |
| Global Environment Facility press conference: Adaptation update on the Least Developed Country Fund |
| A poster for the Regional Environmental Center (left), a begging polar bear says he needs change, not coins (center) and the atrium outside the main plenary halls (right). |
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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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