IISD RS @ Warsaw Climate Change Conference - November 2013, 11 November 2013, Warsaw, Poland

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Warsaw Climate Change Conference - November 2013

11-22 November 2013 | Warsaw, Poland

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Highlights for Monday, 11 November 2013

In the morning, the Warsaw Climate Change Conference opened. The opening ceremony was followed by the opening plenary of COP 19. In the afternoon and evening, opening plenaries of CMP 9, the SBI and the SBSTA convened.

UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres with COP 18/CMP 8 President Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Attiyah during the opening ceremony.

OPENING PLENARY

L-R: Dais during the opening plenary with Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, Mayor of Warsaw, Poland; UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres; COP 18/CMP 8 President Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Attiyah; June Budhooram, COP Secretary; Richard Kinley, UNFCCC Deputy Executive Secretary; Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); and Marina Shvangiradze, Rapporteur

L-R: COP 18/CMP 8 President Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, Qatar, hands over the ceremonial gavel to incoming COP 19/CMP 9
President Marcin Korolec, Poland

COP 19/CMP 9 President Marcin Korolec, Poland

COP 18/CMP 8 President Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, Qatar

UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres

Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, Mayor of Warsaw, Poland

Beata Jaczewska, Deputy Minister of the Environment, Poland

Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, Chairman, IPCC

Naderev Saño, the Philippines, made an emotional statement to the COP 19 plenary highlighting the recent disaster in the
Philippines caused by typhoon Haiyan

Amena Yauvoli, Fiji, speaking on behalf of
the G-77/China

Lara Daniel, Nauru, speaking on
behalf of the Alliance of Small Island
States (AOSIS)

Vitalijus Auglys, EU

China requested that the COP 19 plenary observe three minutes of silence for the victims of the recent disaster in the Philippines

Delegates from Kuwait

L-R: Terieta Mwemwenikeaki and Nenenteiti Teariki-Ruatu, Kiribati

OPENING SESSION OF THE CMP

COP 19/CMP 9 President Marcin Korolec, Poland, presided the opening session of the CMP

Silje Lundberg, Climate Justice Now!

Andrew Wong, Students on Ice

Vositha Wijenayake, Climate Action
Network

L-R: Albara Tawfiq, and Abdullah Tawlah, Saudi Arabia, in discussion with Attif Aljemaili, Kuwait

SBI

Dais during the opening session of SBI

L-R: Katia Simeonova, UNFCCC Secretariat and SBI Chair Tomasz Chruszczow, Poland

Robert Dixon, the Global Environment Facility (GEF)

Omar Ramirez, the Dominican Republic

Bernarditas Müller, the Philippines

SBSTA

L-R: Richard Kinley, UNFCCC Deputy Executive Secretary; Wanna Tanunchaiwatana, UNFCCC Secretariat; SBSTA Chair
Richard Muyungi, Tanzania; Hanna Hoffmann, UNFCCC Secretariat