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Poznan Climate Change Conference
1-12 December 2008
Poznan, Poland |
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Highlights from Tuesday, 9 December
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On Tuesday, contact groups resumed on adaptation, mitigation, technology and financing under the AWG-LCA. There were also contact groups and informal consultations on the Adaptation Fund, capacity building, CCS under the CDM, decision 1/CP.10 (adaptation and response measures), the financial mechanism, non-Annex I national communications, privileges and immunities, Protocol Articles 2.3 and 3.14 (adverse effects), REDD and spillover effects. Above photo: UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer addresses the media during the daily noon briefing on the status of negotiations. |
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| AWG-LCA Contact Group: Delivering on technology and financing |
| Preety Bhandari, UNFCCC, Luis Machado, AWG-LCA Chair, and Sudhir Sharma, UNFCCC. |
AWG-LCA Contact Group: Enhanced action on adaptation and means of implementation |
| Roberto Acosta, UNFCCC, Co-Chair William Kojo Agyemang-Bonsu, Ghana, Co-Chair Thomas Kolly, Switzerland, and Youssef Nassef, UNFCCC |
| AWG-LCA Contact Group: Enhanced action on mitigation and means of implementation |
| Brazil (left photo) is speaking for the G-77/China in this contact group. AWG-LCA Vice-Chair Michael Zammit Cutajar speaks with delegates (right photo). |
| World vs. Bank: A colorful carnival-inspired demonstration protesting "against the capture of climate investments by international financial institutions". |
The Korean Green Foundation provides the chance to be photographed with the climate crisis clock, which urges delegates to "Stop CO2, act now!" (left photo).
Ice sculptures call on delegates to "stop harming, start helping", and show how crucial it is that negotiators remember the human impact climate change is having on millions of poor people around the world. (right photo).
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| UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer (center) discusses the status of negotiations. |
| Participants watch the press conference outside the press conference room. |
| Globescan: climate action and economic growth go together says a global survey of 1000 climate decision makers worldwide. |
| UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner and Monique Barbut, GEF CEO, discuss expansion of African geothermal: clean indigenous and climate friendly energy for the 21st century. |
| ENB interview with the UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer |
| Claudio Forner, UNFCCC, and Tahar Hadj-Sadok, Algeria (left photo). SBI Chair Bagher Asadi and SBI Coordinator Vitaly
Matsarski (right photo). |
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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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