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Bonn Climate Change Talks - June 2009

1-12 June 2009 | Bonn, Germany

Read the daily reports of the meeting		Coverage of Selected Side Events


	Highlights for Monday, 1 June 2009 The Bonn Climate Change Talks began on Monday morning with the opening plenaries of AWG-LCA 6 and SBI 30. They were followed by opening plenaries of AWG-KP 8 and SBSTA 30 in the afternoon.

Greenpeace Youth greeting participants and highlighting that decisions negotiated at this meeting will determine the fate of numerous people around the world.


	Daily web coverage (click on the following links to see the daily web pages for the meeting) 1 June - 2 June - 3 June - 4 June - 5 June - 6 June - 8 June - 9 June - 10 June - 11 June - 12 June

The dais during the opening of the AWG-LCA in the morning.

Michael Zammit Cutajar, AWG-LCA Chair, opened the session and stressing the need to enter into full negotiating mode.

Li Gao (China) emphasized that developed countries should commit to ambitious emission reductions, as well as meet developing country needs for finance, technology transfer and capacity building.

Oleg Shamanov, Russian Federation, called for commitments from all major emitters and for burden sharing, taking into account country specificities and levels of economic development.

Participants listening to proceedings during the AWG-LCA opening plenary in the morning.


	Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI)

Ismail Elgizouli, Sudan, highlighted technology transfer and the need for progress on the Nairobi Work Programme (NWP).

Pavel Zámyslický, Czech Republic, for the EU, suggested concentrationg on issues that would advance agreement of future negotiations.

SBI Chair Liana Bratasida (Indonesia) opened SBI 30.


	Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP)

Vladimir Tarasenko, Belarus, noted the need to simplify procedures for joining Annex B, and urged synergy between the two AWGs.

Latifa Benazza (Algeria), for the AFRICAN GROUP, emphasized that the AWG-KP’s mandate is to specify further emission reduction commitments for Annex I parties, and stressed the need for a “firewall” between the AWG-KP and other processes.

Renate Christ, IPCC, reported on the workshop on alternative greenhouse gas metrics, highlighting inter alia that effectiveness of a metric depends on the policy goal it seeks to address.

Participants consulted informally before the start of the session.


	Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA)

Helen Plume, SBSTA Chair (New Zealand) opened the session and parties adopted the agenda and organization of work.

Participants during the meeting.



	Oleg Shamanov, Russian Federation, and Taras Bebeshko, Ukraine, in informal consultations.


	Around the Conference

A Greenpeace Youth representative appealing to delegates from developed countries to take responsibility for their role in exacerbating climate change.

Registration lines before the Talks began on Monday morning.

Participants during a coffee break.


	Daily web coverage (click on the following links to see the daily web pages for the meeting) 1 June - 2 June - 3 June - 4 June - 5 June - 6 June - 8 June - 9 June - 10 June - 11 June - 12 June

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	Related Links


	UNFCCC resources Official website Daily programme SBI 30 provisional agenda SBSTA 30 provisional agenda AWG-KP 8 provisional agenda AWG-LCA 6 provisional agenda Side Events schedule UN resources Gateway to the UN System’s Work on Climate Change Informal Thematic Debate of the UN General Assembly on Climate Change as a Global Challenge IISD RS resources 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 IISD RS climate and atmosphere page Climate-l - A mailing list for news on climate change policy Linkages Update - Bi-weekly international environment and sustainable development news MEA Bulletin - Newsletter on key MEAs and their secretariats Climate Change Policy & Practice - A knowledge management project for international negotiations and related activities on climate change African Regional Coverage

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