Highlights and images for 22 June 2019

Summary

Highlights for Saturday, 22 June 2019

Representatives from Youth NGOs (YOUNGOs) demonstrate in the hallway, calling for six fundamental building blocks of human rights to be considered in Article 6, without which they say it will not be able to establish a new market mechanism.

The Bonn Climate Change Conference continued on Saturday, wrapping up its first week. As draft decisions, conclusions, and other texts started to trickle throughout the meeting rooms, areas of agreement and disagreement crystallized.On some highly-salient, and therefore sensitive, issues, agreement was elusive. Delegates could not agree to a procedural conclusions on common timeframes, (the length of time for countries’ nationally determined contributions (NDCs), or on conclusions related to research and systemic observation.The depth of disagreement was clear in confrontational discussions regarding the membership of the Adaptation Fund Board, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on 1.5°C of Global Warming. One delegate intimated that the “gentleperson’s agreement” on how to consider the IPCC report “was broken.”Parties consideration of the Lima Work Programme on Gender and the Nairobi Work Programme on impacts, vulnerability, and adaptation concluded, marking some of the first finalized texts of the conference. With four negotiation days left, several delegates wondered about the extent of progress made thus far, and what they would be sending forward to the next meeting in Chile.For more details on the day's events and to hear what delegates said in the corridors, see our daily Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB).

IISD Reporting Services, through its ENB Meeting Coverage, provided daily web coverage, daily reports, and a summary and analysis report from the Bonn Climate Change Conference - June 2019, which is now available in HTML and PDF.

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Third Meeting of the Paris Committee on Capacity-Building

Family photo of the Paris Committee on Capacity-building (PCCB).

Jennifer Hanna, Dominican Republic

Roberta Ianna, Italy

Gregg Walker, Oregon State University, takes notes during the session.

Consultations throughout the Day

SBI informal consultations on matters relating to the Adaptation Fund: membership of the Adaptation Fund Board.

SBSTA informal consultations on matters relating to Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.

Delegates huddle during the SBI informal consultations on development and transfer of technologies: Poznan strategic programme on technology transfer.

SBI informal consultations on arrangements for intergovernmental meetings.

SBI/SBSTA informal consultations on matters relating to the forum on the impact of the implementation of response measures serving the Convention, the Kyoto Protocol, and the Paris Agreement.

SBSTA informal consultations on training programme for technical experts participating in the technical expert review.

Delegates huddle during the SBI/SBSTA informal consultations on the terms of reference for the 2019 review of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage associated with Climate Change Impacts (WIM).

Delegates speak informally between sessions.

Consultative Group of Experts Informal Forum

Delegates gather for the pilot Consultative Group of Experts (CGE) informal forum to engage in an implementation-focused exchange to facilitate addressing the technical assistance needs of transitioning to the enhanced transparency framework.