Bonn Climate Change Conference - June 2014

The Bonn Climate Change Conference of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) continued on Sunday, 8 June. The Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP) convened in a contact group throughout the day for sessions focused on mitigation. Discussions focused on procedural issues, including whether the ADP Co-Chairs intend to break into informal consultations on various elements of the 2015 agreement and on the timing and process of developing draft negotiation text. Substantive interventions addressed the nature and scope of INDCs, including a review process, and how to reflect INDCs in a COP 20 outcome.

The third and fourth parts of the third meeting of the structured expert dialogue (SED) on the 2013-2015 Review took place in the morning and afternoon and the second part of the 2nd Dialogue on Article 6 (education, training and public awareness) of the Convention took place in the morning. The SED discussed the conclusions of the IPCC WGIII report, including on: the adequacy of the global goal, including sectoral and cross-sectoral mitigation and performance of climate policies; overall progress toward the global goal, including trends in stocks and flows of GHGs, mitigation value judgment and equity concepts; and finance issues.

During lunch, the incoming COP presidency hosted open-ended informal consultations on the expectations for COP 20 in Lima, Peru. Parties, observer organizations and civil society outlined their expectations for the COP 20 outcome.

In the morning, open-ended informal consultations on a COP agenda item on decision-making in the UNFCCC process continued, as mandated by COP 19. Numerous informal consultations and contact groups under the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) and the SBSTA also took place.