Summary
On Saturday, 12 November, the UN Climate Change Conference continued in Marrakech, Morocco. In the morning an informal stocktaking plenary was convened by the COP President. Contact groups and informal consultations under the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP), the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) and the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) convened throughout the day.
Informal consultations convened under the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement (APA) throughout the day on: further matters related to the implementation of the Paris Agreement; further guidance in relation to the mitigation section of Decision 1/CP.21; modalities and procedures for the effective operation of the committee to facilitate implementation and promote compliance; further guidance in relation to the adaptation communication, including, inter alia, as a component of nationally determined contributions (NDCs); and modalities, procedures and guidelines for the transparency framework for action and support. In the afternoon, the APA convened in a contact group to discuss all of its substantive agenda items, with reports back from informal consultations.
The second round of the multilateral assessment process under international assessment and review (IAR) took place throughout the day under the SBI and COP.
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Informal Consultations throughout the Day
Informal consultations on Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement (APA) agenda
item 8: further matters related to implementation of the Paris Agreement
COP informal consultations on matters relating to finance: report of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to the COP and guidance to the GEF
Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) contact group on budget performance for the biennium 2016-2017
Informal consultations on APA agenda item 3: further guidance in relation to the mitigation section of Decision 1/CP.21
Informal Stocktaking Plenary by the COP President
View of the dais during the stocktaking plenary
Salaheddine Mezouar, COP 22/CMP 12 President
APA Co-Chairs Sarah Baashan, Saudi Arabia,
and Jo Tyndall, New Zealand
Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) Chair Carlos Fuller, Belize
SBI Chair Tomasz Chruszczow, Poland
UNFCCC Global Climate Action Champion Hakima El Haité, Morocco
Franz Perrez, Switzerland
Paul Oquist Kelley, Nicaragua
Manasvi Srisodapol, Thailand, speaking on behalf of the G-77/China
Ravi Prasad, India
Adriana Murillo, Costa Rica
First Working Group Session of the Multilateral Assessment
View of the dais during the session
Nicole Wilke, Germany
Patrick Suckling, Australia
Reed Schuler, US
Claire Oei, Singapore
Markus Nauser, Switzerland
Xing Fan, China
Dylan Muggeridge, New Zealand
Guilherme do Prado Lima, Brazil
Around the Venue
UN Security around the venue
Ségolène Royal, COP 21/CMP 11 President
Prince Albert II, Monaco (far left)
UNFCCC Global Climate Action
Champion Laurence Tubiana, France
Dan Bondi Ogolla, UNFCCC Secretariat,
with Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, WWF
Delegates huddle to consult
Salaheddine Mezouar, COP 22/CMP 12 President,
with Aziz Mekouar, COP 22/CMP 12 Presidency
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa
Delegates from Belarus
Oleg Shamanov, Russian Federation
Delegates confer
SBSTA Chair Carlos Fuller, Belize, with a delegate
Conference officers during a session
Martha Rojas-Urrego, Secretary General,
Ramsar Convention on Wetlands