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Highlights from
Wednesday, 15 November:
 Delegates convened in contact groups throughout the day
to discuss text on: land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF);
guidelines under Protocol Articles 5 (methodological issues), 7
(communication of information) and 8 (review of information); development
and transfer of technologies; adverse effects; and "best practices"
in policies and measures. The Joint Working Group on Compliance
(JWG) met in the evening to continue its consideration of negotiating
text. In addition, negotiators met in closed "informal informal"
consultations and drafting group meetings to consider several issues,
including mechanisms, development and transfer of technologies,
the financial mechanism, adverse effects and capacity building in
developing countries.
Left
photo: SBI Chair John Ashe in discussions with Charles
Parker (Canada)
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Contact Group: LULUCF
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In the LULUCF contact group,
Co-Chair Thorgeirsson informed participants that the group's
meeting on Thursday, 16 November, will focus on providing technical
advice to the contact group on mechanisms regarding inclusion of
sinks under Protocol Articles 6 (JI) and 12 (CDM). Participants then
discussed the sections on Definitions, Eligibility and Accounting
Specific to Article 3.3 (afforestation, reforestation,
deforestation) in the Co-Chairs' text.
Left photo: Co-Chairs Philip Gwage (Uganda) and Halldor
Thorgeirsson (Iceland)
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COLOMBIA expressed concern with
an activity-based approach and proposed a symmetrical approach.
Right photo: Colombian
delegates speak with the Secretariat in LULUCF
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 On the definition of "forest,"
TUVALU supported the biome approach, and said it should be elaborated
by COP-7.
Right photo (L-R): Ian
Fry (Tuvalu) and Leonard Nurse (Barbados) discussing the
text in LULUCF
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Contact Group: Articles 5, 7, and 8
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 Co-Chair Newton Paciornik (Brazil) said the Co-Chairs
would consult on this issue with the Co-Chairs of the contact group on LULUCF.
In the guidelines under Article 8, the G-77/CHINA suggested
deleting Part III on the review of information on AA.
Right
photo:Co-Chairs Helen Plume (New Zealand) and Newton
Paciornik (Brazil)
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JAPAN proposed to limit this concept
("questions of implementation") to the mandatory
requirements of the guidelines under Articles 5.1 (national system)
and 7.2 (supplementary information) while US, G-77/CHINA, BRAZIL and
INDIA are in opposition. Left photo: Japanese delegates attending LULUFC
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Contact Group: Adverse Effects
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Discussion
on the proposed disaster fund was postponed pending outcomes on
financial discussions elsewhere. Several brackets remained in the discussed paragraph,
pending decision on the wording of the chapeau, which identifies
financial resources for the activities outlined in this paragraph.
Later in the evening, a small Friends of a Chair group met in a
closed session to continue discussing the text. Left photo: Co-Chairs
Mohammed Reza Salamat (Iran) and Bo Kjellen (Sweden) seated
with Yusef Nassef
(Secretariat)
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Press Conference:
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(Photo
L-R) - Clark Peteru (Samoa), Antonio Jacanamijoy (Colombia),
Rosemary Kuptana (Canada) and Atencio Lopez Martinez (Panama) during
an Indigenous Peoples' Press Conference
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Above photo (L-R): Scientists Ronald G. Prinn (Massachusetts Institute of Technology),
Ray F. Weiss (University of California), Ronald Bee (University of
California), Richard C. J. Somerville (University of California),
and Christopher B. Field (Carnegie Insitution of Washington), from
the University of California Revelle Program on Climate Science and
Policy, hold a press conference on carbon sinks, GHGs and climate
modeling. The challenges of modeling carbon sequestration and
climate change trends were discussed, as well as the potential of
biofuels.
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 Left
photo: Aubrey Meyer, Global Commons Institute, announces the
release of the publication of "Contraction and Convergences: The Global
Situation to Climate Change" For more information on the publication,
visit www.oneworld.org/schumachersoc
or email: schumacher@gn.apc.org |
 The
Fossil of the Day is an award presented by the Climate Action Network(CAN)
to the most obstructive country(ies) in the climate change negotiations.
Today's First place or the Drowning Fossil award went to Saudi Arabia
for insistently delaying progress in the text on policies and
measures and for threatening to "destroy" other contact
groups. Today's runner-ups were Australia, New Zealand, Canada and
the United States. Left photo: Fossil of the Day Scoreboard
is tallied daily by CAN
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Right photo: The exhibit of melting penguins representing the
delegates from Antarctica
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