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Daily Reports and Summary and Analysis
IISD Reporting Services (IISD RS) has produced daily issues and a summary and analysis from this meeting. To download our reports, please click below on the HTML or PDF icons. |
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 Fifteenth Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Fifth Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP 15 and COP/MOP 5)
7-18 December 2009 | Copenhagen, Denmark |
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 Highlights from Tuesday, 8 December
On Tuesday, opening plenaries of the SBI and SBSTA took place. Various contact groups and informal consultations also convened to consider issues, including long-term cooperative action, a shared vision, finance, mitigation and technology under the AWG-LCA, Annex I emission reductions, other issues and potential consequences under the AWG-KP and REDD under the SBSTA.
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Daily web archives: Monday, 7 December * Tuesday, 8 December * Wednesday, 9 December * Thursday, 10 December * Friday, 11 December
Saturday, 12 December * Monday, 14 December * Tuesday, 15 December * Wednesday, 16 December * Thursday, 17 December |
Photo Highlights from Tuesday, 8 December |
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| A frustrated magician tries to make a plane and its emissions disappear through offsetting but the trick does not work |
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| Human clocks wandering around the halls of the Bella Center gathering Countdown to Copenhagen pledges and distributing flyers about the Countdown to Copenhagen Event on Sunday, 13 December |
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| On the 29th anniversary of John Lennon’s assassination, youth from around the world joined in a "bed-in" at the UN Conference Cente. |
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| Dressed in pyjamas and holding pillows, young people performed an alternative version of Lennon’s song "Give Peace a Chance" |
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| Delegates entering the room where the AWG-LCA contact group was held |
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| Bernarditas Muller, representing the G-77/China, in the AWG-LCA contact group |
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| Roberto Acosta, SBSTA Coordinator, Thelma Krug, Brazil, and Helen Plume, SBSTA Chair |
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| Thomas Kolly, Switzerland, Angela Churie, Sweden, Amjad Abdulla, Maldives, and William Kojo Agyemang-Bonsu, Ghana, discuss issues related to adaptation |
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| Martin Khor, South Centre |
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| Bolivia raises her flag in the AWG-LCA contact group |
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| A view of the dais during the AWG-LCA contact group |
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| The Society for Threatened Peoples (with the organizing support of the Indigenous Environmental Network) on behalf of the International Peoples Forum on Climate Change hold a cleansing ceremony. |
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| The ceremony is for clarity, compassion, strength and perseverance in coming out of the COP negotiations with a binding commitment to Save Mother Earth. |
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Arthur Rolle, Chair of the Expert Group on Technology Transfer (right) intervenes during the SBSTA plenary |
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| Selling organic apples in the conference center |
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| Dessima Williams, Grenada, speaking for AOSIS |
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| A view of the dais during the SBSTA plenary |
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| Ilkhomjon Rajabov, Tajikistan |
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| AWG-KP Vice-Chair Harald Dovland and Claudio Forner, UNFCCC Secretariat |
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| Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai speaking at the iseeT@COP 15 TelePresence booth |
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| Gilberto Gil, Grammy Award-winning singer and former Brazilian Minister of Culture |
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| WWF ice bear in the city center |
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| Atiq Raman, Bangladesh Center for Advanced Studies, and UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer |
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| AWG-LCA Vice-Chair Luiz Machado, Rapporteur Lilian Portillo, and AWG-LCA Chair Michael Zammit Cutajar |
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| US Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs Maria Otero and David Sandalow, Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs, US Department of Energy, during an event at the US Center |
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| Checking the CCTV for the daily schedule |
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| Christina Ora (left), a high school student from the Solomon Islands, addressed the AWG-LCA plenary on Monday, 7 December |
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| A delegate peruses documents |
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| A Japanese delegate shows his badge to UN Security before entering informal negotiations |
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| Mohammad Al Sabban, Saudi Arabia, and Georg Børsting, Norway |
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| Jonathan Pershing, US, speaking with the delegation of Lesotho |
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| View of an overcrowded meeting room |
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| Globe in the US Center, where various events and presentations are being held throughout the day |
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UNFCCC resources
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Overview schedule
Daily programme
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Side events schedule
Meetings archive
UNFCCC News
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Informal Thematic Debate of the UN General Assembly on Climate Change as a Global Challenge
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