Summary
The Fiji / Bonn Climate Change Conference continued on Monday. Contact groups and informal consultations under the Conference of the Parties (COP), Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI), Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), and Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement (APA) met in the morning and afternoon. In the evening, the APA contact group met to consider all its substantive agenda items, and the closing plenaries of the SBI and SBSTA met, adopting several conclusions and decisions.
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Informal Consultations throughout the Day
SBI informal consultations on the review of the functions of the Standing Committee on Finance (SCF)
Informal consultations on further guidance in relation to adaptation communication (APA agenda item 4)
Delegates huddle during informal consultations on matters relating to the global stocktake (APA agenda item 6)
Informal consultations on further matters except the Adaptation Fund (APA agenda item 8)
Civil Society Actions throughout the Day
Members of the Indigenous Peoples constituency hold a demonstration to "reclaim a space for indigenous peoples and protest their continued marginalization" in the negotiations
Representatives of ACT Alliance hand out chocolate coins, promoting the need for climate finance for adaptation
Representatives of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service demonstrate against the use of nuclear energy, saying it is not a solution to combating climate change
Representatives of CARE International hand out "care packages" that serve as "sweet policy recommendations"
Representatives of The Big Shift Global protest against the financing of fossil fuels, offering delegates the chance to put chocolate coins into either a green piggy bank representing green energy, or a brown piggy bank representing fossil fuels
Representatives of the Women and Gender constituency hold a tribute to honor women who have faced repression, persecution, threats, intimidation, violence, and even murder, in pursuit of the protection of human rights and the environment
APA Contact Group
Members of the Secretariat hand out the draft APA conclusions
Delegates from Costa Rica and Argentina
Delegates from Switzerland and Georgia
Delegates read the draft APA conclusions
APA Co-Chairs Sarah Baashan, Saudi Arabia, and Jo Tyndall, New Zealand
Sin Liang Cheah, Singapore, Co-Facilitator for APA agenda item 3 - mitigation section
Pieter Terpstra, Netherlands, Co-Facilitator for APA agenda item 8 - further matters, Adaptation Fund
Xiang Gao, China, Co-Facilitator for APA agenda item 5 - transparency framework
Julio Cordano, Chile, Co-Facilitator for APA agenda item 4 - adaptation communication
Peter Horne, Australia, Co-Facilitator for APA agenda item 7 - committee to facilitate implementation and promote compliance
Outi Honkatukia, Finland, Co-Facilitator for APA agenda item 6 - global stocktake
SBI and SBSTA Closing Plenaries
View of the dais during the SBI and SBSTA joint closing plenary
SBSTA Chair Carlos Fuller, Belize
Sidat Yaffa, The Gambia
SBI Chair Tomasz Chruszczow, Poland
Marianne Karlsen, Norway
Hamdhoon Mohamed, Maldives, speaking on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)
Adão Soares Barbosa, Timor-Leste
Patricia Soares Leite, Brazil
Elizabeth Pirth, Research and Independent NGOs (RINGOs)
Mathias Edetor, Youth NGOs (YOUNGOs)
Jisun Hwang, Local Government and Municipal Authorities (LGMA)
Bjørn Gimming, Farmers
Ndivile Colia Mokoena, Women and Gender
Krishneil Narayan, Climate Action Network (CAN), and Tetet Nera Lauron, Climate Justice Now! (CJN!)
SBI Chair Tomasz Chruszczow, Poland; Katia Simeonova, UNFCCC Secretariat; SBSTA Chair Carlos Fuller, Belize; Wanna Tanunchaiwatana, SBSTA Coordinator; and Hanna Hoffmann, UNFCCC Secretariat
Around the Venue
Peter Thomson, UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Ocean
Horacio Peluffo, UNFCCC Secretariat, speaks with a delegate
Delegates from the EU
Emmanuel Dumisani Dlamini, Swaziland
UN Security around the venue
Delegates from Argentina
SBSTA Chair Carlos Fuller, Belize (left) with members of the UNFCCC Secretariat
Delegates between sessions
