Summary
The Fiji / Bonn Climate Change Conference continued on Saturday. Contact groups and informal consultations under the Conference of the Parties (COP), Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP), Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI), Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), and Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement (APA) met throughout the day. In the afternoon, the COP Presidency held an informal stocktaking plenary to hear updates from all subsidiary bodies.
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Informal Consultations throughout the Day
Informal consultations on further matters, except Adaptation Fund (APA agenda item 8)
Informal consultations on further guidance on adaptation communication (APA agenda item 4)
Delegates huddle during the SBI informal consultations on coordination of support for the implementation of forest activities
SBSTA informal consultations on the technology framework under Paris Agreement Article 10.4
SBI/SBSTA informal consultations on impact of the implementation of response measures
Delegates celebrate the agreement of draft conclusions in the SBI informal consultations on ways of enhancing the implementation of education, training, public awareness, public participation and public access to information to enhance actions under the Paris Agreement
Delegates huddle during the informal consultations on further guidance in relation to the mitigation section of the Paris outcome (APA agenda item 3)
Informal Stocktaking Plenary by the COP 23 President
Delegates gather in plenary for the informal stocktaking
Delegates from Mexico
Delegates speak informally before the start of the session
Delegates from Egypt
Nazhat Shameem Khan, COP 23/CMP 13/CMA 1-2 Presidency
View of the dais during the session
Frank Bainimarama, COP 23/CMP 13/CMA 1-2 President
APA Co-Chairs Jo Tyndall, New Zealand, and Sarah Baashan, Saudi Arabia
Sergey Kononov, APA Coordinator
SBI Chair Tomasz Chruszczow, Poland
SBSTA Chair Carlos Fuller, Belize
Walter Schuldt Espinel, Ecuador, speaking on
behalf of the G-77/China
Amjad Abdulla, Maldives, speaking on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)
Gebru Jember, Ethiopia, speaking on behalf of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs)
Liliam Ballón Sánchez de Amézaga, Peru, speaking on behalf of the Independent Alliance of Latin America and the Carribean (AILAC)
Majid Shafie-Pour, Iran, speaking on behalf of the Like-minded Developing Countries (LMDCs)
Patrick Suckling, Australia, on behalf of the Umbrella Group
Nicole Wilke, EU
Ayman Shasly, Saudi Arabia
Civil Society Actions throughout the Day
Members of civil society hold up a 'Noah's Ark,' encouraging delegates to stick to the Paris Agreement
Eric Meyer, Generation Atomic, sings an operatic ballad outside the venue about the benefits of nuclear energy in climate action
Around the Venue
APA Co-Chair Jo Tyndall, New Zealand
APA Co-Chairs, UNFCCC Secretariat, and COP 23/CMP 13/CMA 1-2 Presidency
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa speaks with members of the UNFCCC Secretariat
Wanna Tanunchaiwatana, SBSTA Coordinator, and SBSTA Chair Carlos Fuller, Belize
Frank Bainimarama, COP 23/CMP 13/CMA 1-2 President
Ovais Sarmad, UNFCCC Deputy Executive Secretary (centre)
Joseph Africano Bartel, South Sudan
Rueanna Haynes, Saint Kitts and Nevis
Aziz Mekouar, Morocco, COP 22/CMP 12/CMA 1 Presidency, speaks with Tosi Mpanu-Mpanu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Christiana Figueres, former UNFCCC Executive Secretary
Delegates from Samoa and Tuvalu
Hussein Alfa Nafo, Mali, speaks with a delegate
UN Security around the venue
Delegates from Brazil and Saudi Arabia
Delegates speak informally
Beto Blush, Climax Brasil
Delegates from the Stockholm Environment Institute and Oxfam International
