Summary
The Bonn Climate Change Conference continued on Wednesday. Among the day’s key issues was the opening meeting of the Talanoa Dialogue, a global conversation about the efforts to combat climate change involving both parties and non-party stakeholders.
Another important theme was the the Paris Agreement Work Programme (PAWP), scheduled for completion at COP 24 in December. Topics discussed during the day included mitigation and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), adaptation, global stocktake, and finance.
A number of negotiating groups also met to discuss issues on the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) and the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) agendas. In addition, the Suva Expert Dialogue was organized, focusing on issues related to loss and damage. A workshop on Climate Change and Gender also took place.
For extensive details on the day’s negotiations and to hear what delegates said in the corridors, see our daily Earth Negotiations Bulletin.
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Opening Meeting of the Talanoa Dialogue for Climate Ambition
View of the dais during the opening meeting of the Talanoa Dialogue
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa and Inia Seruiratu, Minister of Agriculture, Rural and Maritime Development and National Disaster Management, and High-Level Climate Champion, Fiji
Luke Daunivalu, COP 23 Presidency, Fiji, and Tomasz Chruszczow, COP 24 Presidency, Poland
Ayman Shasly, Saudi Arabia, speaking on behalf of the Arab Group
Wael Aboulmagd, Egypt, speaking on behalf of the G-77/China
Gebru Jember, Ethiopia, speaking on behalf of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs)
Juan Carlos Arredondo Brun, Mexico, speaking on behalf of the Environmental Integrity Group (EIG)
Simon Cardy, South Africa
Ravi Prasad, India
Özlem Ergün Ulueren, Turkey
Laura Juliana Arciniegas Rojas, Colombia, speaking on behalf of the Independent Association of Latin America and the Caribbean (AILAC)
Emma Clemens, Youth NGOs (YOUNGOs)
Hitoshi Suzuki, Trade Union NGOs (TUNGOs)
Majda Dabaghi, Business NGOs (BINGOs)
Anne Olhoff, UNEP DTU Partnership
Jim Skea, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, Civil Society Representative
Anirban Ghosh, Mahindra Group
SBI Gender In-Session Workshop
Participants during the SBI gender in-session workshop
Lisa Gittos, Australia
Jeniffer Collado, Dominican Republic
Elias Abourizk, Canada
Gotelind Alber, Gender CC - Women for Climate Justice
Technical Expert Meeting - Mitigation
Participants during the Technical Expert Meeting (TEM) focused on mitigation
Jean-Pierre Maugendre, Suez Environnement
Inês Santos Costa, Ministry of Environment, Portugal
Preeti Srivastav, Ecofys
Sunandan Tiwari, ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability
Araceli Fernandez Pales, International Energy Agency (IEA)
Special Briefing on the Global Climate Action Summit
Delegates attend the special briefing on the Global Climate Action Summit
Anirban Ghosh, Mahindra Group
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa
Nick Nuttall, Global Climate Action Summit
Suva Expert Dialogue
View of the dais during the Suva Expert Dialogue
Luke Daunivalu, COP 23 Presidency, Fiji
SBI Chair Emmanuel Dlamini, Swaziland
Erling Kvernevik, Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism on Loss and Damage (WIM ExCom) Co-Chair, Norway
Musonda Mumba, UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
Vhalinavho Khavhagali, Executive Committee of the WIM ExCom Co-Chair, South Africa
A word cloud produced during the session demonstrates how delegates are most affected by climate change
Participants discuss loss and damage in break-out groups
Around the Venue
Tomasz Chruszczow, COP 24 Presidency, Poland, and Claudio Forner, UNFCCC Secretariat
Talieh Wögerbauer, Austria
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa
Yunus Arikan and Carlos David Jacome Polit, ICLEI
William Agyemang-Bonsu, UNFCCC Secretariat, Carlos Fuller, Belize, and Kishan Kumarsingh, Trinidad and Tobago
Delegates between sessions
Rob Bradley, NDC Partnership
