Summary
The Bonn Climate Change Conference continued on Wednesday, 17 May. Throughout the day, informal consultations and contact groups met to discuss various issues under the forty-sixth sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA 46) and Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI 46), as well as the third part of the first session on the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement (APA 1-3). The APA contact group met in the afternoon and evening.
Throughout the day, mandated events convened. The Technical Expert Meeting on adaptation met all day, focusing on how national adaptation plans can enable linkages between national and subnational development planning processes and strategies. In the afternoon, the multi-stakeholder dialogue on the operationalization of the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform continued discussions.
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Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI)/Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) Technical Expert Meeting (TEM): Adaptation
Delegates gather for the second day of the Technical Expert Meeting on adaptation
Akio Takemoto, Ministry of the Environment, Japan
Musonda Mumba, UN Environment
Beth Lavender, Least Developed Countries Expert Group (LEG) Member
Benjamin Karmorh, Environment Protection Agency, Liberia
Sione Fulivai, Ministry of Meteorology, Energy, Information, Disaster Management, Environment, Climate Change and Communications, Tonga
Delegates ask questions through an online platform
Delegates share ideas with their neighbors
Delegates during the session
Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement (APA) Contact Group
View of the dais during the APA contact group
APA Co-Chair Jo Tyndall, New Zealand
APA Co-Chair Sarah Baashan, Saudi Arabia, and Co-Facilitator for agenda item 8 - other matters
Nicolas Zambrano Sanchez, Ecuador, Co-Facilitator for APA agenda item 4 - adaptation communications
Janine Felson, Belize, Co-Facilitator for APA agenda item 7 - committee to facilitate implementation and promote compliance
Xolisa Ngwadla, South Africa, Co-Facilitator for APA agenda item 6 - global stocktake
Xiang Gao, China, Co-Facilitator for APA agenda item 5 - transparency framework
Sin Liang Cheah, Singapore, Co-Facilitator for APA agenda item 3 - mitigation
María del Pilar Bueno, Argentina, Co-Facilitator for APA agenda item 8 - further matters, Adaptation Fund
Delegates read the draft conclusions presented by the Co-Chairs
Raed Albasseet, Saudi Arabia, speaking on behalf of the Arab Group
Andrea Faulkner, Australia, speaking on behalf of the Umbrella Group
Gebru Jember, Ethiopia, speaking on behalf of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs)
Ravi Prasad, India
Franz Perrez, Switzerland, speaking on behalf of the Environmental Integrity Group (EIG)
Majid Shafie-Pour, Iran, speaking on behalf of the Like-Minded Developing Countries (LMDCs)
Kim Carnahan, US
Delegates from the EIG
Delegates speak with APA Co-Chair Jo Tyndall, New Zealand
Delegates from the LMDCs
Delegates from the African Group
Delegates from the LDCs
Delegates from the Umbrella Group
Delegates huddle to discuss a way forward for the APA
Multi-stakeholder Dialogue on the Operationalization of the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform
Delegates gather for the second day of the multi-stakeholder dialogue on the operationalization of the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform
SBSTA Chair Carlos Fuller, Belize
Grace Balawag, International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change (IIPFCC)
Pamela Rocha, Ecuador
Koko Warner, UNFCCC Secretariat
Geert Fremout, EU
Ella Havnevik Giske, Norway
Julio Cordano, Chile
Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNSRRIP)
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, IIPFCC
Inka Saara Arttijeff, Sámi Parliament, Finland
Sébastien Duyck, speaking on behalf of Environmental, Trade Union and Youth NGOs, Women and Gender, and Farmers
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa applauds the work done during the session
Francois Paulette, IIPFCC (center), leads the group in a prayer to close the session
Around the Venue
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa arrives at the venue
Delegates huddle to discuss budget issues
SBSTA Chair Carlos Fuller, Belize, speaks with delegates
Delegates gather outside of Chamber Hall
Horacio Peluffo, UNFCCC Secretariat
Delegates from Austria and Luxembourg
Delegates from Argentina and Saudi Arabia speak informally
Delegates from Brazil
Delegates between sessions
Security staff at the World Conference Center Bonn
