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Summary report 30 April – 10 May 2018
Bonn Climate Change Conference - April 2018
Daily report for 14 November 2017
Fiji / Bonn Climate Change Conference - November 2017
Highlights and images for 14 November 2017
Fiji / Bonn Climate Change Conference - November 2017
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
Daily report for 11 November 2017
Fiji / Bonn Climate Change Conference - November 2017
Highlights and images for 11 November 2017
Fiji / Bonn Climate Change Conference - November 2017
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.
IISD Reporting Services, through its Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) Meeting Coverage, has providing daily web coverage, daily reports, and a summary and analysis report from the Fiji / Bonn Climate Change Conference 2017. The summary and analysis report is now available in HTML and PDF.
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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
Summary report 11 November 2017
Oceans Action Day
Daily report for 10 November 2017
Fiji / Bonn Climate Change Conference - November 2017
Daily report for 9 November 2017
Fiji / Bonn Climate Change Conference - November 2017
Daily report for 7 November 2017
Fiji / Bonn Climate Change Conference - November 2017
Highlights and images for 7 November 2017
Fiji / Bonn Climate Change Conference - November 2017
The Fiji / Bonn Climate Change Conference continued on Tuesday. In the morning, the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement (APA) resumed its first session in an opening plenary, and met in a contact group for all substantive agenda items. The plenaries for the Conference of the Parties (COP) and Conference of the Parties Serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP) resumed in the afternoon. Throughout the day, the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) and Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) contact groups and informal consultations and APA informal consultations convened.
IISD Reporting Services, through its Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) Meeting Coverage, has providing daily web coverage, daily reports, and a summary and analysis report from the Fiji / Bonn Climate Change Conference 2017. The summary and analysis report is now available in HTML and PDF.
Photos by IISD/ENB | Kiara Worth
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APA Opening Plenary
Delegates gather for the APA opening plenary
APA Co-Chairs Jo Tyndall, New Zealand, and Sarah Baashan, Saudi Arabia
Helmut Hojesky, Austria, COP 23 Vice-President
Delegates applaud the re-election of the APA Co-Chairs
Walter Schuldt Espinel, Ecuador, speaking on behalf of the G-77/China
Franz Perrez, Switzerland, speaking on behalf of the Environmental Integrity Group (EIG)
Patrick Suckling, Australia, on behalf of the Umbrella Group
Gebru Jember, Ethiopia, speaking on behalf of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs)
Ayman Shasly, Saudi Arabia
Meelis Münt, EU
Hussein Alfa Nafo, Mali, speaking on behalf of the African Group
Amjad Abdulla, Maldives, speaking on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)
Xiandi Ooi, Youth NGOs (YOUNGOs)
Majda Dabaghi, Business NGOs (BINGOs)
Tianyang Zhou, Women and Gender
APA Contact Group
Delegates during the APA contact group
Ravi Prasad, India
Liang Pei, China
APA Co-Chair Jo Tyndall, New Zealand
APA family photo
Civil Society Actions throughout the Day
Representatives from Friends of the Earth call for an end to 'dirty energy'
Representatives of the Women and Gender constituency conduct an aerobics class to remind COP 23 delegates to metaphorically 'mind the gap' of gender inequality, and 'reach' for a gender action plan
Contact Groups and Informal Consultations throughout the Day
SBI informal consultations on National Adaptation Plans (NAPs)
Delegates sit on the floor as rooms are filled to capacity
SBSTA informal consultations on issues relating to agriculture
SBI/SBSTA contact group on the impact of the implementation of response measures
SBI contact group on administrative, financial and institutional matters
COP Plenary
View of the dais during the COP plenary
Frank Bainimarama, COP 23/CMP 13/CMA 1-2 President
Nazhat Shameem Khan, COP 23/CMP 13/CMA 1-2 Presidency
Ewen McDonald, Co-Chair, the Green Climate Fund (GCF)
Chizuru Aoki, the Global Environment Facility (GEF)
Georg Børsting, Co-Chair, Standing Committee on Finance (SCF)
Paweł Sałek, Secretary of State, Government Plenipotentiary for Climate Policy, Poland
Nedal Katbeh-Bader, State of Palestine
CMP Plenary
View of the dais during the CMP plenary
Frank Wolke, Chair, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Executive Board (EB)
Gherghita Nicodim, Vice Chair, Joint Implementation Supervisory Committee (JISC)
Gerhard Loibl, Co-Chair, Compliance Committee
Victor Vinas, Vice Chair, Adaptation Fund Board (AFB)
Around the Venue
Delegates from Poland
Marcela Main Sancha, Secretary to the COP/CMP, UNFCCC, speaks with Nazhat Shameem Khan, COP 23/CMP 13/CMA 1-2 Presidency
Salaheddine Mezouar, COP 22/CMP 12/CMA 1 President, speaks with delegates from Morocco
Hayrapet Hakobyan, Armenia
Delegates read the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) to keep track of negotiations
Delegates between sessions