Bonn Climate Change Conference - June 2014

The Bonn Climate Change Conference of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) continued on Saturday, 7 June, in Bonn, Germany. The Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP) contact group convened throughout the day, for sessions focused on adaptation.

Discussions in the contact group discussed procedural issues on linkages across elements, scope of intended nationally determined contributions (INDCs) and development of a draft text. On adaptation, the contact group began discussing elements of a possible negotiating text, addressing the Co-Chair's guiding questions on: long-term and collective aspects of adaptation; commitments and contributions; and institutional arrangements, cooperation and coordination.

The second part of the third meeting of the structured expert dialogue (SED), which took place in the morning, discussed the second theme of the 2013-2015 Review, namely the overall progress made toward achieving the long-term global goal, including consideration of commitments under the Convention, highlighting issues such as adaptation needs and costs, and the relationship between mitigation and adaptation. The Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) Research Dialogue convened in the afternoon.

During lunch, the incoming COP presidency outlined logistical arrangements for COP 20, in Lima, Peru, and Venezuela presented on the social pre-COPs taking place in July and November. A number of informal consultations and contact groups under the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) and SBSTA also took place. In the morning, open-ended informal consultations on a COP agenda item on decision-making in the UNFCCC process began, as mandated by COP 19, during which parties exchanged views on possible outcomes for these consultations in Lima.