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Climate Change Policy & Practice
UN Climate Change Conference Bangkok - April 2011

3-8 April 2011 | UN Conference Centre (UNCC), Bangkok, Thailand
 
Highlights for Tuesday, 5 April 2011
 
DAILY WEB COVERAGE

The Expert Workshop on the Technology Mechanism was concluded on Tuesday morning, with discussions on the linkages within the Technology Mechanism and with other institutional arrangements.

On Tuesday afternoon the opening plenaries of the fourteenth session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-Term Cooperation under the Convention and the sixteenth session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties Under the Kyoto Protocol took place, with discussions focused on the organization of work for the coming year. During the opening ceremony, Suwit Khunkitti, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, Thailand, welcomed participants to Bangkok. A minute of silence was observed to mark the tragedies in Japan and Thailand.
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres requested participants to observe a minute of silence in honor of the victims of the tragedies in Japan and Thailand.


Opening Plenaries:


AWG-KP:


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L-R: UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres; H.E. Suwit Khunkitti, Minister of Natural Resources, Thailand; and UN ESCAP Executive Secretary Noeleen Heyzer

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H.E. Suwit Khunkitti, Minister of Natural Resources, Thailand, delivered his opening statement during the welcoming ceremony of the AWG-KP.

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Jorge Arguello, Argentina, speaking for the G-77/China.

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Feiler József, EU

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Tosi Mpanu Mpanu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, speaking for the African Group.

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Dessima M. Williams, Grenada, speaking for AOSIS.

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Pa Ousman Jarju, the Gambia, speaking for the LDCs.

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Daniel Reifsnyder, US, incoming AWG-LCA Chair.

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Jonathan Pershing, US

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Aysar Tayeb, Saudi Arabia

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Franz Perrez, Switzerland

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Expert Workshop on Technology Mechanism:
 
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Expert Technology Mechanism workshop facilitator Jukka Uosokainen, Finland.

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Mac Makwarela, presenter, South Africa

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Tomasz Chruszczow, EU

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Carola Borja Osorio, Bolivia

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Wang Can, China

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Myra Patai, Cook Islands

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Ronnie Cohen-Ginat, Israel

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Drew Nelson, US

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Philip Gwage, Uganda

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Bernarditas Mueller, the Philippines

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Ajay Mathur, India

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Protesting climate finance outside the climate talks in Bangkok, Thailand

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