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Daily Bulletins
IISD Reporting Services (IISD RS) has produced daily reports from this meeting. In order to download our reports please click below on the HTML or PDF icons that are next to the dates of your interest |
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 Barcelona Climate Change Talks 2009
2-6 November 2009 | Barcelona, Spain |
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 SUMMARY OF THE MEETING
On Friday afternoon, the closing plenary of the AWG-KP convened. No conclusions were adopted, but the work done at the second part of AWG-KP 9 is reflected in non-papers that will be used as the basis for revised documentation for AWG-KP 10 in Copenhagen. In closing, Chair John Ashe (Antigua and Barbuda) emphasized that "very little" time remains before Copenhagen and that progress in Barcelona was "less than desirable." He urged parties to use all possible time before Copenhagen to consider the outstanding issues, most importantly, the level of ambition of Annex I parties' emission reductions. He expressed confidence that a successful outcome can be achieved, called for focused discussions in Copenhagen and closed the meeting at 5:20 pm.
On Friday evening, AWG-LCA 7 convened its closing plenary. Chair Zammit Cutajar explained that the results of the work by the six contact groups and six mitigation sub-groups in Barcelona will be taken forward to Copenhagen in the form of several non-papers, annexed to the meeting's report (FCCC/AWGLCA/2009/L.4). He underlined his "firm conviction" that a strong outcome in Copenhagen can be achieved that is "balanced, fair, ambitious and effective," stressing that "the opportunity remains within grasp." The AWG-LCA adjourned at 9:05 pm.
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| A view of the dais during the closing AWG-KP plenary |
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| NGOs outside the plenary hall reminding delegates that the clock is ticking towards Copenhagen |
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| AWG-LCA Chair Michael Zammit Cutajar and AWG-LCA Vice-Chair Luis Machado |
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| UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer during a press briefing |
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Throughout Thursday, informal consultations took place under the AWG-LCA on issues including a shared vision for long-term cooperative action, adaptation, mitigation, finance, technology and capacity building. Under the AWG-KP, contact groups and informal consultations convened on Annex I emission reductions, other issues and potential consequences.
 Read the ENB daily report with highlights from Thursday, 5 November, in English (in HTML or PDF format), French (in HTML or PDF format), or Japanese (in PDF format).
ENB web coverage for Thursday, 5 November |
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| Most of Thursday's meetings took place in informal groups behind closed doors |
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| Olga Pilifosova, UNFCCC Secretariat, Halldor Thorgeirsson, UNFCCC Secretariat, and AWG-LCA Chair Michael Zammit Cutajar, during the informal consultations on mitigation |
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| Annex I emission reductions: Katia Simeonova, UNFCCC Secretariat, Leon Charles, Grenada, Gertraud Wollansky, Austria, and Maria Socorro Manguiat, UNFCCC Secretariat |
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Wednesday, 4 November |
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Throughout the day, informal consultations took place under the AWG-LCA on issues including a shared vision for long-term cooperative action, adaptation, mitigation, finance and technology. Under the AWG-KP, contact groups and informal consultations convened on Annex I emission reductions, other issues and potential consequences.
Read the ENB daily report with highlights from Wednesday, 4 November, in English (in HTML or PDF format), French (in HTML or PDF format), or Japanese (in PDF format).
ENB web coverage for Wednesday, 4 November |
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Throughout the day, contact groups and informal consultations took place under the AWG-LCA on issues including a shared vision for long-term cooperative action, capacity building, mitigation and technology. In the evening, the AWG-KP plenary convened for a short meeting.
Read the ENB daily report with highlights from Wednesday, 4 November, in English (in HTML or PDF format), French (in HTML or PDF format), or Japanese (in PDF format).
ENB web coverage for Tuesday, 3 November |
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| Richard Kinley, UNFCCC Deputy Executive Secretary, AWG-KP Chair John Ashe, Claudio Forner, Secretariat, and Harald Dovland, AWG-KP Vice-Chair, during the evening AWG-KP plenary session |
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| Greenpeace solar chill-out: Drink solar coffee, listen to music and charge batteries for laptops and mobiles with 100% renewable energy. |
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| Artur Runge-Metzger, EU, and AWG-KP Chair John Ashe |
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The Barcelona Climate Change Talks opened on Monday morning with a welcoming ceremony. In the morning, the opening plenaries of the AWG-KP and the AWG-LCA took place. In the afternoon, contact groups convened to consider adaptation, mitigation, finance and technology under the AWG-LCA and Annex I emission reductions and potential consequences under the AWG-KP.
Read the ENB daily report with highlights from Wednesday, 4 November, in English (in HTML or PDF format), French (in HTML or PDF format), or Japanese (in PDF format).
ENB web coverage for Monday, 2 November |
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| Elena Espinosa, Spanish Environment Minister, José Montilla Aguilera, President of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Yvo de Boer, UNFCCC Executive Secretary, and Maria Teresa Fernández de la Vega, Vice-President of Spain |
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| UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer |
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| Connie Hedegaard, Minister of Climate and Energy, Denmark |
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| WWF performance entitled "Planet Earth: victim of climate change", a creative and original theater play about the effects of climate change on our planet. |
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| Jonathan Pershing, US, during a press conference |
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| An OXFAM action outside the conference center |
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UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) resources
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IISD RS resources
IISD RS coverage of the Bangkok Climate Change Talks - 2009, 28 September - 9 October 2009, UN Conference Centre (UNCC), Bangkok, Thailand
IISD RS coverage of the Bonn Climate Change Talks - August 2009, 10-14 August 2009, Bonn, Germany
IISD RS coverage of the Bonn Climate Change Talks - June 2009, 1-12 June 2009, Bonn, Germany
IISD RS coverage of the UNFCCC Technical Workshop on Increasing Economic Resilience to Climate Change and Reducing Reliance on Vulnerable Economic Sectors through Economic Diversification, 28-30 April 2009, Cairo, Egypt
IISD RS summary report of the Thirtieth Session of the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC), 21-23 April 2009, Antalya, Turkey (English: HTML - PDF) (Spanish: HTML - PDF) (Japanese: PDF)
IISD RS coverage of the Bonn Climate Change Talks - March/April 2009, 29 March - 8 April 2009, Bonn, Germany
IISD RS summary report of the UNFCCC Workshop on Integrating Practices, Tools and Systems for Climate Risk Assessment and Management and Disaster Risk Reduction Strategies into National Policies and Programmes, 10-12 March 2009, Havana, Cuba (HTML - PDF)
IISD RS coverage of the UN Climate Change Conference - Poznań, 1-12 December 2008, Poznań, Poland
IISD RS coverage of AWG-LCA 2, second part of the AWG-KP 5, and twenty-eighth sessions of the SBSTA and the SBI of the UNFCCC, 2-13 June 2008, Bonn, Germany
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