IISD RS @ Bonn Climate Change Talks - June 2009 - Highlights for Saturday, 6 June 2009 - Bonn

Share this page on Facebook


	Enter your email address to get free daily email reports


	Climate Change Policy & Practice Feed


	Follow us on

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 Saturday, 6 June 2009 In the morning and afternoon, the AWG-LCA met in an informal plenary. Throughout the day, various contact groups and informal consultations took place under the AWG-KP, SBI and SBSTA.


	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


	Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA): Mitigation

The dais, L-R: Luiz Machado AWG-LCA Vice Chair, Halldor Thorgeirsson, Secretariat, Michael Zammit Cutajar, AWG-LCA Chair, and Olga Pilifosova, Secretariat

Tijen İğcí (Turkey) called for a “wide range of commitments” taking into account national circumstances and capabilities.

Selwin Hart (Barbados), for AOSIS, highlighted that the level of mitigation ambition under the BAP and AWG-KP will have “serious consequences” for the most vulnerable countries.

Hanne Bjurstrøm (Norway) underscored the importance of national greenhouse gas inventories.


	Contact group on Annex I parties' emission reductions

José Domingos Gonzalez Miguez (Brazil) stressed that the introduction of a new protocol could take up to 15 years, and delay mitigation efforts.

Artur Runge-Metzger (EU)

Co-chair Gertraud Wollansky (Austria)



	L-R: Qian Guoqiang and Guo Xiaofeng (China).

Jun Arima (Japan) highlighted the underlying science that shows that current emissions are almost double the atmosphere’s absorptive capacity.


	International transaction log interactive exercise



	Delegates learning the concepts behind the international transaction log and how transactions of Kyoto Protocol units are performed.


	Contact group on arrangements for intergovernmental meetings



	Richard Muyungi, Tanzania, Georg Børsting (Norway), and Richard Kinley, Secretariat.

A view of the room during the session.


	Budget contact group



	Co-chairs Kunihiko Shimada (Japan) and Quamrul Chowdhury (Bangladesh)

The co-chairs consulted with the Secretariat over the scheduling of a proposed informal meeting on the budget.


	Contact group on other issues identified by AWG-KP 6



	Marcelo Rocha (Brazil), Bryan Smith (New Zealand), and Chair Harald Dovland

Informal consultations before the beginning of the contact group meeting on other issues identified by AWG-KP 6.


	Third World Network side event: "Will Copenhagen be a success or failure?"


	Around the Conference Center


	The Bonn Climate Day of Action



	Global youth and residents of Bonn marching on the grounds of the conference venue. The rally was staged to remind participants at the Climate Change Talks that their decisions would affect the world.

Protesters chanted slogans during the rally.

^ up to top


	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


	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

^ up to top


	Digimarc and the Digimarc logo are registered trademarks of Digimarc Corporation. The "Digimarc Digital Watermarking" Web Button is a trademark of Digimarc Corporation, used with permission.


	Please e-mail the Digital Editor should you have any questions regarding the content of this page


	\| Back to IISD RS “Linkages” home \| Visit IISDnet \| Send e-mail to IISD RS \| © 2009, IISD. All rights reserved.