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Cancún Climate Change Conference

29 November - 10 December 2010 | Cancún, Mexico

Summary of the Meeting

COP 16 Closes with Adoption of Cancun Agreements

On Friday, an informal plenary was held, followed by the closing plenaries of the AWGs, and the closing plenaries of the COP and the COP/MOP. Photo: UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres, COP President Patricia Espinosa and UNFCCC Deputy Executive Director Richard Kinley after agreement is reached in Cancun.

ENB web coverage for Friday, 10 December

Friday, 10 December

Mexican President Felipe Calderón makes an early morning appearance after the adoption of the Cancun Agreements

COP President Patricia Espinosa and UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres after agreement is reached in Cancun

Mexican President Felipe Calderón enters the conference hall in the early morning hours of Saturday

The dais during the evening informal plenary session

President Espinosa receives a standing ovation

Christiana Figueres, UNFCCC Executive Secretary, consults with Luis Alfonso de Alba, Mexico

L-R: Claudia Salerno Caldera, Venezuela, and Connie Hedegaard, EU Commissioner for Climate Action

Oleg Shamanov, Russian Federation, consults with AWG-KP Chair John Ashe

The Brazilian delegation with COP President Espinosa

Pablo Solón, Bolivia

Bolivia asks for the floor

Christiana Figueres, UNFCCC Executive Secretary, and COP President Patricia Espinosa

UN Security announces the release of the latest text

Long lines to get the text

Thursday, 9 December

On Thursday, contact groups and informal consultations, including discussions at the ministerial level, were held throughout the day. Late in the evening, COP and COP/MOP President Espinosa convened an informal stocktaking plenary. Throughout the day, the high-level segment continued with statements from heads of states, governments and delegations. A webcast of all statements is available online at: http://webcast.cc2010.mx

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Felipe Calderon, Mexican President and South African President Jacob Zuma

Bolivian President Evo Morales

COP President Patricia Espinosa consults with Luis Alfonso de Alba, Mexico

Dialogue on: "The struggle against climate change, what should our legacy be?"

Ministers from Indonesia, Sweden, India and the UK

Wednesday, 8 December

On Wednesday morning, the COP and COP/MOP held informal stocktaking plenary sessions. In addition, contact groups and informal consultations met throughout the day under the COP, COP/MOP, AWG-LCA and AWG-KP. Meanwhile, the high-level segment continued with statements from heads of states, governments and delegations. A webcast of all statements is available online at: http://webcast.cc2010.mx

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UK Climate Secretary Chris Huhne (center) helping to facilitate information consultations

Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Norway, meets UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

President Rafael Correa of Ecuador and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

Delegates from China and India during informal consultations

Event on the key findings of the report of the Secretary-General's High-level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing

Tuesday, 7 December

On Tuesday afternoon, the opening ceremony of the high-level segment was held. In addition, a number of contact groups and informal consultations met throughout the day under the COP/MOP, AWG-LCA and AWG-KP.

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L-R: Jules Kortenhorst, European Climate Foundation; Dessima Williams, Ambassador for Climate Change, Grenada; Achim Steiner, UNEP Executive Director; Juan Rafael Elvira, Secretary for Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico; and Chris Huhne, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, United Kingdom, during a press briefing on the Emissions Gap Report: Are Copenhagen Accord pledges sufficient to limit global warming to 2°C and 1.5°C.

Christiana Figueres, UNFCCC Executive Secretary, and Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon meets with members of the G-77/China

Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Amolo Odinga addresses the high-level segment

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi

Monday, 6 December

Throughout Monday, a number of contact groups and informal consultations convened under the COP, COP/MOP, AWG-LCA and AWG-KP. In addition, the fourth Focal Point Forum of the Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation (NWP) was held.

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COP President Patricia Espinosa and UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres after a press briefing

Zhenhua Xie, China

Rishikesh Ram Bhandary, Youth Focal Point (center) during a briefing by the President of Mexico

Chris Henschel from CAN jumping through a LULUCF loophole.

EU and Australian delegates during the mitigation drafting group on 1b(i)

Saturday, 4 December

On Saturday, the SBI and SBSTA held their closing plenaries and the COP and the COP/MOP held stocktaking plenaries.

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COP President Patricia Espinosa and UNFCCC Deputy Executive Secretary Richard Kinley

SBI Chair Robert Owen-Jones gives a gold star to the contact group on Article 6 for completing its work in one meeting

Michel Jarraud, Secretary General of the WMO, and SBSTA Chair Mama Konaté

Mexican President Felipe Calderón enters the conference room for the COP President's Initiative on Stakeholder Engagement in Climate Action

Article 6 Contact Group Chair Pa Ousman Jarju, Gambia

Friday, 3 December

Throughout Friday, a number of contact groups and informal consultations convened under the COP/MOP, SBI, SBSTA, AWG-LCA and AWG-KP.

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Press briefing with UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres

Todd Stern, US Special Envoy for Climate Change

AWG-KP Chair John Ashe with members of the Secretariat and delegates from Croatia

Michael Zammit Cutajar, Malta (center), chaired the contact group on proposals by Parties under Article 17 of the Convention

Thursday, 2 December

Throughout Thursday, a number of contact groups and informal consultations convened under the COP/MOP, SBI, SBSTA, AWG-LCA and AWG-KP.

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During an intergenerational inquiry event where youth, scientists and key negotiators discussed prospects for the future, participants danced to a reggae song about climate change as part of a Jamaican awareness raising campaign on climate change in Jamaica (l-r): Mariana Diaz, moderator of event, Jean-Pascal van Ypersele de Strihou, Belgium, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres, and youth delegates Hilary Bowman and Krishneil Narayan

Youth delegate Hilary Bowman holds up a t-shirt that says "You have been negotiating all my life. You cannot tell me that you need more time."

UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres with a youth t-shirt

Contact group on issues relating to compliance under the Kyoto Protocol: Co-Chairs Richard Tarasofsky, Canada, and Pornchai Danvivathana, Thailand

Wednesday, 1 December

The COP/MOP plenary convened on Wednesday morning and afternoon. In the afternoon, the COP plenary also took place. Numerous informal groups under the SBI, SBSTA, AWG-KP and AWG-LCA were also held throughout the day.

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UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres speaking to journalists

UNFCCC Executive Director Christiana Figueres is presented with Green Footprints of Europe's Children by the Climate Alliance

Peter Betts, EU, and Claudia Salerno Caldera, Venezuela

Members of the G-77/China during the finance drafting group

WMO press conference on progress towards a Global Framework for Climate Services: Carine Richard-van Maele, WMO, Jan Egeland, High-Level Taskforce for Climate Services, and Michel Jarraud, Secretary General, WMO

Will you back a fair climate fund? Oxfam asks delegates to choose the right path to a fair climate fund

Tuesday, 30 November

In the morning and afternoon, opening plenaries of the SBI and SBSTA took place, as well as various spin-off, informal and drafting groups under the AWG-KP and AWG-LCA.

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A view of civil society during the SBI plenary

The South African delegation consulting during the drafting group

IPCC: The latest climate change science, with a focus on climate change impacts in Latin America

Chinese delegates consulting

Monday, 29 November

The UN Climate Change Conference in Cancun opened on Monday with a welcoming ceremony. In the morning and afternoon, the opening plenary of the Conference of the Parties (COP) took place. In the afternoon, opening plenaries of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP/MOP), the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the UNFCCC (AWG-LCA) and the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments by Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP) convened. In the evening, the AWG-LCA contact group on preparation of outcome for COP 16 and the AWG-KP contact group of Annex I further commitments met.

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Mexican President Felipe Calderon addresses the conference

Mario Molina, Nobel Laureate in chemistry

Simona Gomez Lopez, Representative of Indigenous Mexican People

UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres greets incoming COP President Patricia Espinosa

Members of the Secretariat with Mexican President Felipe Calderon

Danish Minister for Climate and Energy Lykke Friis and IPCC Chair Rajendra Pachauri

Outgoing and incoming COP Presidents

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