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Saturday, 9 October
On Saturday, various drafting groups convened under the AWG-LCA to consider shared vision, adaptation, mitigation, and finance, technology and capacity building. Contact groups under the AWG-KP addressed legal issues and other matters. In the afternoon, Patricia Espinosa, Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico and President-Designate of COP 16 and CMP 6 delivered a message to Parties and observers. The closing plenaries of the AWG-KP and the AWG-LCA convened in the late afternoon and into the night. The AWG-KP agreed to forward a revised proposal by the Chair to facilitate preparations for negotiations (FCCC/KP/AWG/2010/CRP.3) to Cancun and adjourned the meeting at 5:14pm. Under the AWG-LCA, parties agreed to reflect their outputs of their work in an information document, recognizing that the negotiating text (FCCC/AWGLCA/2010/14) will still form the basis for negotiations in Cancun. AWG-LCA Chair Mukahanana-Sangarwe declared AWG-LCA 12 closed at 10:23pm. |
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| Delegates from the US, EU, Egypt, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia |
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| UNFCCC Deputy Executive Secretary Richard Kinley and Luiz Alberto Figueiredo Machado, Brazil |
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| Jonathan Pershing, US (right), during a press briefing |
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| Patricia Espinosa, Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Mexico, and incoming COP16 President, during a UNFCCC press briefing |
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Friday, 8 October
On Friday, various drafting groups convened under the AWG-LCA to consider shared vision, adaptation, mitigation, and finance, technology and capacity building. Contact groups and informal discussions under the AWG-KP addressed potential consequences, LULUCF, mechanisms and Annex I emission reductions. The AWG-KP also met in an informal plenary in the afternoon to discuss elements of a balanced outcome in Cancun.
 Read the ENB daily report with highlights from Friday, 8 October in English (in HTML or PDF format), French (in HTML or PDF format), Spanish (in HTML or PDF format) or Japanese (in PDF format).
ENB web coverage for Friday, 8 October |
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| MJ Mace, Federated States of Micronesia, and Ian Fry, Tuvalu, consulting with the Secretariat |
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| Su Wei, China, and Claudia Salerno Caldera, Venezuela |
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| Hanging in the balance: Ingredients for a balanced package: Paul Horsman, Greenpeace, greets delegates with a traditional Chinese yoke for good balance |
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| Contact group on potential consequences (l-r): Festus Luboyera, UNFCCC Secretariat, and Co-Chairs Eduardo Calvo Buendía, Peru, and Andrew Ure, Australia |
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Polar bears doing tai chi (Photo by John Kiarie) |
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Thursday, 7 October
On Thursday, various drafting groups convened under the AWG-LCA to consider shared vision, adaptation, mitigation, and finance, technology and capacity building. Contact groups and informal discussions under the AWG-KP addressed potential consequences, legal matters, Annex I emission reductions and LULUCF.
Read the ENB daily report with highlights from Thursday, 7 October in English (in HTML or PDF format), French (in HTML or PDF format), Spanish (in HTML or PDF format) or Japanese (in PDF format).
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| Mitigation drafting group co-facilitators Richard Muyungi, Tanzania, and Audun Rosland, Norway |
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| A view of the dais during the contact group on the scale of emission reductions by Annex I Parties |
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| Daniele Violetti and Frank Schroeder, UN Secretary-General's Climate Change Support Team, updated delegates on the work of the Secretary-General's High-level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing |
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| Daniel Ortega, Ecuador, and Meena Raman, Third World Network, during an information session on the Yasuni-ITT initiative, a proposal by Ecuador to refrain indefinitely from exploiting the oil reserves in the Yasuni National Park |
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Wednesday, 6 October
On Wednesday, various drafting groups convened under the AWG-LCA to consider shared vision, adaptation, mitigation, and finance, technology and capacity building. The AWG-LCA contact group convened in the afternoon to take stock of progress in the drafting groups. Contact groups and informal discussions under the AWG-KP addressed potential consequences, Annex I emission reductions and other issues.
Read the ENB daily report with highlights from Wednesday, 6 October in English (in HTML or PDF format), French (in HTML or PDF format), Spanish (in HTML or PDF format) or Japanese (in PDF format).
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| AWG-LCA Chair Margaret Mukahanana-Sangarwe, during a stocktaking contact group |
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| Press briefing with wastepickers, who discussed their fight to combat climate change and the CDM, and call for recycling, not incineration |
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| Pablo Solón, Bolivia, during a press briefing |
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Tuesday, 5 October
Throughout Tuesday, various drafting groups convened under the AWG-LCA to consider adaptation, mitigation, and finance, technology and capacity building.
Contact groups under the AWG-KP addressed legal matters and Annex I emission reductions, while LULUCF and other issues were discussed in informal consultations.
Read the ENB daily report with highlights from Tuesday, 5 October in English (in HTML or PDF format), French (in HTML or PDF format), Spanish (in HTML or PDF format) or Japanese (in PDF format).
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Monday, 4 October
The Tianjin Climate Change Talks opened on Monday morning with a welcoming ceremony. In the morning, the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA) opening plenary took place, followed by the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP) opening plenary. In the afternoon, drafting groups convened under the AWG-LCA to consider: shared vision; adaptation; and finance, technology and capacity building. Contact groups on Annex I emission reductions and other issues convened under the AWG-KP.
Read the ENB daily report with highlights from Monday, 4 October in English (in HTML or PDF format), French (in HTML or PDF format), Spanish (in HTML or PDF format) or Japanese (in PDF format).
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UNFCCC resources
AWG-KP 14 provisional agenda
AWG-KP 14 scenario note by the Chair
Chair’s draft proposal
AWG-LCA 12 provisional agenda
AWG-LCA 12 annotated agenda
Negotiating text
Side events
IISD RS resources
IISD RS coverage of the Bonn Climate Change Talks - August 2010, 2-6 August 2010, Bonn, Germany
IISD RS coverage of the Bonn Climate Change Talks - May/June 2010, 31 May - 11 June 2010, Bonn, Germany
IISD RS summary and analysis of the Bonn Climate Change Talks - April 2010, 9-11 April 2010, Bonn, Germany (English: HTML - PDF) (French: HTML - PDF) (Japanese: PDF)
IISD RS coverage of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, 7-19 December 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark
IISD RS coverage of Selected Side Events at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, 7-19 December 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark
IISD RS coverage of the Barcelona Climate Change Talks 2009, 2-6 November 2009, Barcelona, Spain
IISD RS coverage of Selected Side Events at the Barcelona Climate Change Talks 2009, 2-6 November 2009, Barcelona, Spain
IISD RS summary and analysis of the Thirty-first Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 26-29 October 2009, Bali, Indonesia (English: HTML - PDF) (French: HTML - PDF)
IISD RS coverage of the UNFCCC Technical Workshop on Advancing the Integration of Approaches to Adaptation Planning, 2-14 October 2009, UN Conference Centre (UNCC), Bangkok, Thailand
IISD RS coverage of the Bangkok Climate Change Talks - 2009, 28 September - 9 October 2009, UNCC, Bangkok, Thailand
IISD RS coverage of the Bonn Climate Change Talks - August 2009, 10-14 August 2009, Bonn, Germany
IISD RS coverage of the Bonn Climate Change Talks - June 2009, 1-12 June 2009, Bonn, Germany
IISD RS coverage of Selected Side Events at the Bonn Climate Change Talks - June 2009, 1-12 June 2009, Bonn, Germany
IISD RS summary and analysis of the Thirtieth Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 21-23 April 2009, Antalya, Turkey (English: HTML - PDF) (Spanish: HTML - PDF) (Japanese: PDF)
IISD RS summary and analysis of the Thirtieth Session of the IPCC, 21-23 April 2009, Antalya, Turkey (English: HTML - PDF) (French: HTML - PDF) (Japanese: PDF)
IISD RS coverage of the Bonn Climate Change Talks - March/April 2009, 29 March - 8 April 2009, Bonn, Germany
IISD RS summary report of the UNFCCC Workshop on Integrating Practices, Tools and Systems for Climate Risk Assessment and Management and Disaster Risk Reduction Strategies into National Policies and Programmes, 10-12 March 2009, Havana, Cuba (HTML - PDF)
IISD RS coverage of the UN Climate Change Conference - Poznań, 1-12 December 2008, Poznań, Poland
IISD RS archive of meetings on climate change, and backgrounder
Climate-L - A mailing list for news on climate change policy
Linkages Update - Bi-weekly international environment and sustainable development news
MEA Bulletin - Newsletter on key MEAs and their secretariats
Climate Change Policy & Practice - News and information on the actions of international organizations in responding to the problem of global climate change
African Regional Coverage
Latin America and Caribbean Regional Coverage |
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