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Poznan Climate Change Conference
1-12 December 2008
Poznan, Poland |
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Highlights from Saturday, 6 December
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On Saturday, the AWG-LCA convened a workshop on research and development of current, new and innovative technology. Contact groups and informal consultations also took place on many issues, including the Adaptation Fund, the AWG-KP, CCS under the CDM, decision 1/CP.10 (adaptation and response measures), the financial mechanism, adaptation and mitigation under the AWG-LCA, non-Annex I national communications, privileges and immunities, Protocol Articles 2.3 and 3.14 (adverse effects) and spillover effects. Above photo: A polar bear has been camped outside the main entrance all week begging for change.
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| AWG-LCA Workshop: Cooperation on research and development of current, new and innovative technology |
| Roberto Acosta, UNFCCC, Workshop Chair Kunihiko Shimada, Japan, and Wanna Tanunchaiwatana, UNFCCC. |
Jukka Uosukainen, Chair of the Expert Group on Technology Transfer, proposed options for cooperation, such as a global pooling of funds, coordination of existing programmes, enhanced capacity building, increased national public sector investment, and provision of incentives for greater private sector investment. |
Bernarditas Muller, Philippines, for the G-77/China (left), urged a win-win solution that achieves the objective of the Convention and supports adaptation, mitigation and sustainable development. Elmer Holt, US (right), highlighted substantial roles for a wide range of technologies, but said there would probably be no "silver bullet". |
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| Morgan Bazilian, for the EU, outlined means to enhance cooperation, including: increased capacity building through training and information exchange; building climate technology centers; creating new, technology-oriented agreements and enhancing current ones; and focusing on specific technologies and barriers to their deployment. |
| Karine Hertzberg, Norway, highlighted CCS as an option to allow a "climate-friendly transition to a low carbon society," and urged more international cooperation to share costs and pool resources. |
| Contact groups and informal meetings |
| Halldor Thorgeirsson, UNFCCC, and AWG-LCA Vice-Chair Michael Zammit Cutajar |
| Informal consultations took place throughout the day (left photo). AWG-LCA Vice-Chair Michael Zammit Cutajar with Mutsuyoshi Nishimura, Special Advisor to the Cabinet of Japan (right photo). |
| Sara Aagesen Muñoz and Vera Estefania Gonzalez, Spain (left photo). |
| Press conference on the huge potential of the building and construction sector for combating climate change, which largely remains untapped. |
| Activists paraded through the streets of Poznan. |
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| Greenpeace illustrates the dangers of deforestation and the burning of coal. |
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Relevant links
Related IISDRS Coverage
- 29th Session of the IPCC,
31 August - 4 September 2008, Geneva, Switzerland
- Accra Climate Change Talks 2008 (AWG-KP 6 and AWG-LCA 3), 21-27 August, Accra Ghana
- Bonn Climate Change Conference 2008 (SB 28, AWG-LCA 2, AWG-KP 5, part 2), 2-13 June, 2008, Bonn, Germany)
- 28th Session of the IPCC, 9-10 April 2008, Budapest, Hungary
- First Session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-Term Cooperative Action under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Fifth Session of the Ad Hoc Working Group under the Kyoto Protocol, 31 March-4 April 2008, Bangkok, Thailand
- UNFCCC Expert Group Meeting on Socioeconomic Information under the Nairobi Work Programme (NWP), 10-12 March 2008, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
- UNFCCC Expert Group Meeting on Methods and Tools and on Data and Observations under the Nairobi Work Programme (NWP), 4-7 March 2008, Mexico City, Mexico
- UN Climate Change Conference in Bali (COP 13), 3-14 December 2007, Bali, Indonesia
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