Delegates
to the resumed COP-6 (left) met early evening in a delayed Plenary to
formally adopt the political decision agreed by Ministers and other
high-level officials on Monday, 23 July. They also discussed the
organization of meetings during the remainder of the week. Following
the Plenary, delegates convened in the negotiating groups on finance,
compliance, mechanisms, and land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF).
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PLENARY:
Delegates convened in a delayed Plenary session late
afternoon, following intensive closed negotiations throughout the day
between President Pronk and various delegations to resolve outstanding
issues relating to the adoption of the political decision and
organizational matters. President Pronk underlined that his role is to
safeguard the integrity of the political agreement that had been
reached on Monday 23 July, guarantee a fair process, and urge
delegates to work intensively on the basis of these agreements to
reach consensus on a final decision text by Friday.
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ADOPTION
OF THE POLITICAL DECISION:President Pronk
presented the political decision on Implementation of the Buenos Aires
Plan of Action (BAPA) (FCCC/CP/2001/L.7) for formal adoption by the
COP. The decision was adopted.
The text of this decision is identical to that contained in
the proposal presented to the President's Group on Saturday 21 July
at 11:00 pm, incorporating the text on procedures and mechanisms
relating to compliance that had been approved for adoption by the High
Level Plenary on Monday 23 July. President Pronk noted that there
remain a number of inconsistencies to be addressed, which are listed
in two documents: the first (FCCC/CP/2001/CRP.9) presents an inventory
of editorial and technical amendments as identified by the
Secretariat, while the second (FCCC/CP/2001/CRP.10) is a proposal by
the Russian Federation to include a footnote stating that the values
allocated to the Russian Federation for forest management are
considered as preliminary figures.
The G-77/CHINA, supported by numerous member countries, as well as
THE ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY GROUP, CG-11, the EU, JAPAN, AUSTRALIA,
and the US, underlined the importance of safeguarding the political
integrity of the political agreement reached on Monday.
ORGANIZATION
OF WORK: Pronk
proposed that delegates proceed with their remaining work in the
previously established negotiating groups on finance, LULUCF,
mechanisms, compliance and Protocol Articles 5 (methodological
issues), 7 (communication of information) and 8 (review of
information). He proposed that work commence with the first four
groups.
NEGOTIATING
GROUPS:
FINANCE:The
negotiating group on finance met in the evening to discuss a revised
version of the informal paper on implementation of UNFCCC Article 4.8
and 4.9 (adverse effects). An Annex I Party highlighted that the
newly-adopted political decision on the implementation of the BAPA
contains sections that overlap with the informal paper, and stressed
that the decision was the definitive document.
MECHANISMS:The mechanisms negotiating group, co-chaired by Raul Estrada-Oyuela
and Kok Kee Chow, met in the evening to hear feedback from the two
informal technical groups established on Wednesday, 18 July. Murray
Ward (New Zealand), Chair of the informal sub-group on mechanisms'
eligibility and the verification procedures for track two of the joint
implementation projects, noted that some disagreement remains, in
particular on verification procedures.
COMPLIANCE:
Negotiating group Co-Chair Neroni Slade said the Co-Chairs had
prepared a non-paper, under the authority of President Pronk, that
they hoped would assist delegates in their further work. Introducing
the non-paper, he highlighted from which documents - the Pronk text,
the Hague text, or the political decision - its paragraphs had been
drawn. He added that this unified document constituted the "natural
product" of the negotiating group's work.
LULUCF:Co-Chair
Harald Dovland informed the group that the task ahead for the
negotiating group was the development of decisions on LULUCF, and
noted the limited time available. He stressed that the decisions would
reflect the political decision taken by Ministers on Monday, 23 July,
as well as a package of documents previously discussed in the
negotiating group. He suggested a smaller group be convened to carry
out the drafting work, based on a new draft prepared by the
Secretariat.
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