IISD RS @ Cancún Climate Change Conference, 29 November

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Cancún Climate Change Conference

29 November - 10 December 2010 | Cancún, Mexico

Highlights for Tuesday, 7 December 2010

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

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.

Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General, arrives at the Moon Palace

L-R: Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General, and Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL)

L-R: Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General, and Henning Wuester, UNFCCC Secretariat

L-R: Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary, CEPAL, and Christiana Figueres, UNFCCC Executive Secretary

L-R: Richard Kinley, UNFCCC Deputy Executive Secretary; Halldor Thorgeirsson, UNFCCC Secretariat; Christiana Figueres, UNFCCC Executive Secretary; and Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary, CEPAL

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

Mexican President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa arrives for the high-level segment

President Calderón is greeted by children

L-R: Christiana Figueres, UNFCCC Executive Secretary, and COP President Patricia Espinosa

L-R: Ban Ki-moon and Guatemalan President Álvaro Colom Caballeros

Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General with Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Amolo Odinga and Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi

A view of the dais during the opening of the high-level segment.

Christiana Figueres, UNFCCC Executive Secretary, addresses the high-level segment.

Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Amolo Odinga

Marcus Stephen, President of Nauru

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi

Guatemalan President Álvaro Colom Caballeros

Johnson Toribiong, President of Palau

Participants during a press conference of the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General

A view of the dais during the AWG-KP contact group

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

Global Environment Facility (GEF) Event

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.

L-R: Achim Steiner, UNEP Executive Director, and Juan Rafael Elvira, Secretary for Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico


	Signing ceremony for legal conferral to the Adaptation Fund Board by Germany.

Delegates during informal consultations on adaptation.

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