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SB-18
Highlights,
Monday, June 9th
On Monday,
9 June, Parties to the UNFCCC SB-18 met in contact groups to
continue their deliberations on, inter alia: the programme
budget for the biennium 2004-2005; Articles 5, 7 and 8; policies
and measures (P&Ms); sinks in the CDM; implementation of
UNFCCC Article 4.8 and 4.9 (adverse effects); the IPCC TAR;
the SCCF; and arrangements for intergovernmental meetings. |
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Joke Waller-Hunter,
Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC
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Chair
John Ashe (Antigua and Barbuda) |
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The
Programme Budget Group
Chair
John Ashe presented a revised draft decision and detailed
breakdown of costs associated with Protocol activities.
Parties agreed on text that requires the Secretariat to
provide administrative and financial implications, rather
than actual costs, of proposed SBSTA and SBI decisions.
The US said administrative funding should include staff
costs and actual positions for the biennium, and requested
clarification on the methodology used to allocate costs
for operational and preparatory activities associated with
the Protocol.
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(Left-right:)
Rocio Lichte (UNFCCC Secretariat) and Co-Chairs Helen Plume
(New Zealand) and Newton Paciornik (Brazil) |
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Methodological
Issues: issues relating to Articles 5,7 and 8 of the Kyoto
Protocol
This contact group met in both morning and evening
sessions. In the morning, Parties considered criteria for
selecting lead reviewers and discussed whether topics for
examination should be included in an annex to the draft COP/MOP
decision on the training programme for ERT members on criteria
for selecting lead reviewers, annexed to the SBSTA-17 reports.
Parties also addressed the appropriate placement of a reference
discussing lead reviewers' disclosure of potential conflicts
of interest relating to review activities. On desirable criteria,
Parties debated language requirements for review team members.
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LULUCF
Co-Chair Thelma Krug (Brazil) (standing center) talks with
special
Climate Change Contact Group Co-Chairs
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Methodological
issues: land use, land-use change and forestry/clean development
mechanism
Delegates
exchanged views on project evaluation on sinks in the CDM,
and discussed textual changes to the consolidated negotiating
text. Delegates also addressed additionality, regulations
for small scale projects and baseline methodologies.
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Co-Chairs Fadel Lari (Kuwait) and Robert Mason (UK) with Youssef
Nassef, Secretariat
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The
implementation of Article 4.8 and 4.9 of the convention
Co-Chair
Robert Mason invited general comments on the Co-Chairs' draft
conclusions, noting that consultations were on the terms of
reference (TOR) for the synergies workshop are ongoing. Co-Chair
Mason adjourned the meeting to allow for group consultations.
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(Left to right:) Co-Chair David Warrilow (UK), Co-Chair Walid
Al-Malik (United Arab Emirates) and Olga Pilisofova (UNFCCC
Secretariat) |
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The
Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change
Parties continued to consider the Co-Chairs' draft
conclusions, discussing issues such as establishing a process
for considering the TAR in COP and Subsidiary Body agenda
items, developing a draft work programme on the TAR, producing
an information paper on links between the TAR and other agenda
items.
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Special
Climate Change Contact Group Co-Chairs Rawleston Moore (Barbados)
and Jaap Rooimans (the Netherlands) and George Manful (Secretariat) |
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The
Special Climate Change Fund
Delegates continued with their initial views on the SCCF. ARGENTINA,
supported by AOSIS, the LDCs, KENYA, COLOMBIA, and NAMBIA, proposed
that the Co-Chairs prepare a draft conclusion, as soon as possible.
The Co- Chairs agreed to prepare the draft conclusion for the
next meeting.
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CDM Executive Board Chair Jurgen Stehirhair
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Jean-Jacques Becker (France), Methodologies Panel Chair |
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INFORMATION
SESSION BY THE CDM EXECUTIVE BOARD
The discussion during the information session on the CDM Executive
Board centered mainly on a question and answer session focusing
on methodology proposals and the accreditation of operational
entities.
Click
here to see a Webcast of the session |
Training center participants during a Spanish session led by Ronald
de la Cruz Rossi
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TRAINING
CENTER
The
UNFCCC Secretariat has organized a series of hands-on sessions,
open to all participants, featuring the content of their new
multi-volume CD-ROM collection. This collection contains all
official documentation issued since 1991 as part of the Convention
and Kyoto Protocol processes. In additional to the full text
of all the documents in all UN official languages, the CD-ROMs
contain interpretive guides, national communications on greenhouse
gas emissions trends and policy responses, in-depth reviews
of national communications, daily programmes, lists of participants
and agendas for all UNFCCC meetings. |
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Delegates confer during the Article 4.8 and 4.9 contact group
meeting
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Martha
Perdomo of the Secretariat participates in the CC:FORUM side event |
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Conference
delegates taking advantage of UNFCCC services |
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Delegates in the contact group on the Third Assessment Report
of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
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Co-Chair
Walid Al-Malik (United Arab Emirates) confers with a delegate
during the contact group on
the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change |
LULUCF contact group members inside the conference room
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LULUCF
contact group participants linger about outside the conference
room
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Fiona Koza and Michael Lisowski of the ENB
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UNFCCC
staff ready to help out with friendly smiles
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