Doha Climate Change Conference - November 2012

A view of the plenary hall

A view of the room during the ADP roundtable

COP 18/CMP 8 Organizing Sub-Committee Chairman Fahad Bin Mohammed Al-Attiya during a press conference

Delegates from Costa Rica, Finland and Bolivia during the ADP roundtable

Maosheng Duan, China, Chair of the CDM Executive Board gives a report of the Board to plenary

Kazakhstan making its case for joining the Kyoto Protocol in the CMP plenary

COP 18 Organizing Committee Chairman Fahad Bin Mohammed Al-Attiya (right) during a press conference

Members of the press during a media training on mitigation

Jo Tyndall, Climate Change Ambassador, New Zealand, intervenes in the ADP Roundtable on Workstream 1

Youth ask that decisions reflect their demands

IISD Reporting Services’ “ENB” team is training a group of Qatar university students for conference and diplomatic reporting. Fahad bin Mohammed Al-Attiya, who is chair of the Qatar National Food Security Program and responsible for media coverage at COP 18, described the training as an ideal opportunity for valuable capacity building on conference reporting, stating that "this initiative will enable Qatar to build a core group of report writers that would be eligible to report at the many conferences to be hosted by the newly built Qatar National Convention Centre in Doha, in years to come.”