Lima Climate Change Conference - December 2014

UPDATE: COP 20 closed at 3:04 am and CMP 10 closed at 3:07 am.

UPDATE: At 2:25 am groups of parties and parties continue making statements on the adoption of the decision advancing the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action, now called the "Lima Call for Climate Action."

UPDATE: At 1:24 am COP 20 adopts the decision advancing the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action.

UPDATE: At 1:23 am COP 20 closing plenary resumed to consider the revision draft decision.

UPDATE: AT 11:53 pm COP 20 President Manuel Pulgar-Vidal suspends the session for one hour so that parties can review the text, after first presenting the text and explaining that it is a product of parties work and "with it we all win."

UPDATE: At 11:37 pm the COP 20 closing plenary resumed starting with the report of the ADP, followed by distribution of the revised text.

UPDATE: As of 11:17 pm, delegates await the resumption of the COP / CMP closing plenaries.

UPDATE: The COP / CMP closing plenaries are expected to reconvene at 11:00 pm.

UPDATE: At 5:53 pm following the election of officers the CMP closing plenary was suspended.

UPDATE: At 5:50 pm COP closing plenary suspends and CMP closing plenary resumes.

UPDATE: At 5:20 pm the COP 20 closing plenary resumed to address the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage and matters related to finance.

UPDATE: COP and CMP closing plenaries will resume at 5:00 pm to continue consideration of agreed items.

UPDATE: At 2:08 pm, COP contact group on climate finance agrees to draft decision texts on the Report of GCF to COP and guidance to GCF and Long-Term Finance.

UPDATE: The draft decision introduced by the ADP Co-Chairs was referred to the Presidency. COP President Pulgar-Vidal will conduct consultations and introduce new text under his own authority. COP closing plenary details will be announced in due course. Parties also elected new co-chairs for the ADP: Ahmed Djoghlaf (Algeria) and Daniel Reifsnyder (US). ADP 2 was adjourned at 1:31 pm and will resume in Geneva in February 2015.

UPDATE: At 1:06 pm, COP contact group on climate finance moves to considering sub-item on Long-term Finance.

UPDATE: COP contact group on climate finance reconvened at 11:46 am, taking up sub-item on the Report of GCF to COP and guidance to GCF.

UPDATE: At 10:41 am on Saturday, 13 December, the ADP closing plenary convened. After a brief statement by the COP/CMP President Pulgar-Vidal encouraging parties to make progress, parties began to consider the draft conclusions.

UPDATE: At 3:30 am the ADP informal contact group adjourned. The ADP will resume at 10:00 am on Saturday, 13 December.

UPDATE: At 3:22 am interventions in the informal ADP contact group continue, with many parties requesting further time to consider the text.

UPDATE: Informal ADP contact group convenes at 2:18 am. COP 20 President Pulgar-Vidal introduces a revised draft decision and calls on parties to work on the basis of the new text.

UPDATE: At 2:00 am parties continue to wait for the opening of the ADP informal contact group meeting.

UPDATE: COP contact group on finance convenes at 12:43 pm, to address the five sub-items on the agenda item on matters relating to finance.

UPDATE: As of 11:36 pm, an informal ADP meeting will convene at 1am. Upon conclusion, the ADP closing plenary will commence.

UPDATE: As of 10:38 pm, COP 20/CMP 10 President Pulgar-Vidal is consulting with the ADP Co-Chairs and ministers on how to proceed. Further information on next steps is expected at 11:30 pm.

UPDATE: As of 8:53 pm, COP 20/CMP 10 President Pulgar-Vidal is consulting with the ADP Co-Chairs and ministers on how to proceed. Further information on next steps is expected at 10:00 pm.

UPDATE: At 6:45 pm, the ADP contact group on item 3 adjourned, pending guidance by COP 20/CMP 10 President Pulgar-Vidal.

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On Friday, 12 December, the closing day of the Lima Climate Change Conference, the closing plenary of the 20th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (COP 20) followed by the closing plenary of the 10th session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 10) convened in the morning to adopt decisions and close various agenda items. The closing plenary was suspended at 1:18 pm.

Under the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP), the contact group on item 3 convened in the morning to consider the revised ‘draft COP decision proposed by the Co-Chairs’ introduced in the contact group on the evening of Thursday, 11 December. COP 20/CMP 10 President Manuel Pulgar-Vidal informed of his appointment of Minister Tine Sundtoft (Norway) and Minister Vivian Balakrishnan (Singapore) to facilitate consultations as well. Parties engaged in substantive discussions on the options in the text. The contact group was suspended at 2:00 pm.

An informal stocktaking plenary convened briefly at 3:00pm, during which ADP Co-Chair Runge-Metzger reported that no agreement had yet been reached. Pulgar-Vidal instructed the ADP contact group to continue through the list of speakers for a further two hours. He also informed that informal consultations undertaken by Sundtoft and Balakrishnan would continue, and that he would continue to undertake consultations as needed.

The ADP reconvened at 4:30 pm with parties continuing to provide their perspectives on the options contained in the draft decision.