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28th Sessions of the UNFCCC Subsidiary Bodies and Sessions of the AWGs
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Highlights from Saturday, 7 June
On Saturday, the AWG-KP convened a workshop on methodological issues. Delegates also met for an in-session workshop on modeling, scenarios and downscaling under the Nairobi Work Programme (NWP). Contact groups and informal consultations were held on a wide range of issues, including technology and finance under the AWG-LCA, arrangements for intergovernmental meetings, capacity building, decision 1/CP.10 (Buenos Aires Programme of Work), financial matters, non-Annex I communications, reducing emissions from deforestation in developing countries, and technology transfer. Photo: Halldor Thorgeirsson, UNFCCC Secretariat, and Luiz Machado, AWG-LCA Chair, during the contact group on technology.
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| SBSTA: Climate modelling, scenarios and downscaling under the Nairobi Work Programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change |
Miwa Kato, UNFCCC Secretariat, SBSTA Chair Helen Plume, and Youssef Nassef, UNFCCC Secretariat (left photo); Jose Marengo, IPCC (right photo), discussed state if the art of regional climate models and downscaling techniques for developing regional/subregional climate scenarios |
Ghassem Asrar, World Climate Research Programme, discussed improving delivery of climate model results and capacity building
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AWG-KP: Workshop on methodological issues
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Katia Simeonova, UNFCCC Secretariat introduced relevant methodologies under the Convention and Protocol, and provided a background on global warming potentials (GWPs). |
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| Simon Eggleston, IPCC, presented on the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, detailing how they have changed since the previous guidelines. |
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| Venkatachalam Ramaswamy, IPCC (right), described complexities of global warming potential (GWP) estimates, detailed changes in GWPs through the different IPCC reports, and described potential alternate metrics. |
| Contact Group: AWG-LCA: Technology |
| Halldor Thorgeirsson, UNFCCC Secretariat, Luiz Machado, AWG-LCA Chair, and Florin Vladu, UNFCCC Secretariat |
| William Kojo Agyemang-Bonso, Ghana, speaks with Martin Khor, Third World Network (left), and the US intervening in the contact group |
| Contact Group: AWG-LCA: Finance |
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| Bernaditas Muller, speaking for the G-77/China, intervening during the finance contact group |
| Contact Group: Arrangements for intergovernmental meetings |
| Co-Chairs Karen Nicole Smith, Barbados (second from left), and Maas Goote, Netherlands (center) |
| Contact Group: Review of the Financial Mechanism |
| Ko Barrett, US, and Kishan Kumarsingh, Trinidad and Tobago (left photo) and Chair Leon Charles, Grenada, and Espen Ronneberg, Marshall Islands (right photo) |
| International transaction log interactive exercise |
| Demonstration of the interactive international transaction log |
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