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Bonn Climate Change Talks - May/June 2010

31 May - 11 June 2010 | Bonn, Germany

Summary of the Meeting UNFCCC


Photo: UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer wears a South African football jersey during the AWG-LCA plenary in honor of the World Cup

ENB SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS: The Earth Negotiations Bulletin summary and analysis of the Bonn Climate Change Talks will be available on Monday, 14 June 2010, online at: http://enb.iisd.org/climate/sb32/

ENB web coverage for Friday, 11 June

Friday, 11 June
   
   

A view of the dais during the closing AWG-KP plenary (l-r): Vitaly Matsarski, UNFCCC Secretariat, AWG-KP Chair John Ashe, Antigua and
Barbuda, Claudio Forner, UNFCCC Secretariat, AWG-KP Vice-Chair Harald Dovland, Norway, and Rapporteur Miroslav Spasojevic, Serbia

 

Late on Friday evening, the AWG-KP closing plenary reconvened. AWG-KP Vice-Chair elect Adrian Macey, New Zealand, reported that parties had come close to agreement during informal consultations but that some outstanding issues remained. AWG-KP Chair John Ashe, Antigua and Barbuda, circulated revised draft conclusions and after discussing some wordings, parties reached agreement on the conclusions (FCCC/KP/AWG/2010/L.4), requesting, inter alia: the Secretariat to organize an in-session workshop during its August session on Annex I parties’ aggregate and individual emission reductions, which should include discussions exploring a possible enhanced scale of emission reductions; and prepare a paper identifying and exploring the legal options, aimed at ensuring that there is no gap between the first and subsequent commitment periods, as well as the legal consequences and implications of a possible gap.

On Friday afternoon and evening, the AWG-LCA closing plenary took place. No conclusions were adopted. AWG-LCA Chair Margaret Mukahanana-Sangarwe (Zimbabwe) presented the advance draft of a revised text to facilitate negotiations, to be issued as an official document (FCCC/AWGLCA/2010/8) for consideration at AWG-LCA 11. She explained that she did not wish to have a discussion of the draft text and emphasized that the draft would be revised before the next session. In their closing statement, Yemen, for the G-77/China, stressed the Group's support for the AWG-LCA Chair, while stressing that the draft text is "unbalanced" and urging the Chair to restore the balance and better reflect developing countries' proposals. These views were reflected in closing statements by a number of other developing countries. AWG-LCA Chair Mukahanana-Sangarwe declared AWG-LCA 10 closed at 17:45pm.

 
Final press conference of UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer

Yvo de Boer in his personalized football jersey

   
   

Yvo de Boer, Halldor Thorgeirssen, UNFCCC Secretariat and AWG-LCA Chair Margaret Mukahanana-Sangarwe

The South African delegation applauds Mexico's intervention that efforts be made to close the plenary before the World Cup begins
Luis Alfonso de Alba, Mexico
   
Oleg Shamanov, Russian Federation, and AWG-KP Chair John Ashe
A view of the dais during the AWG-KP
     
   
   

Applause in the closing AWG-KP after the conclusions are adopted following an EU proposal that was agreed to by the Russian Federation

Thursday, 10 June
 

In the morning, the SBSTA plenary convened. Throughout the day, contact groups and informal consultations were held on issues including item 3 (preparation of an outcome to be presented to COP 16) under the AWG-LCA and Annex I emission reductions, legal matters and other issues under the AWG-KP.

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ENB web coverage for Thursday, 10 June

     
 
   
   

NGOs call for limiting the global average temperature increase to below 1.5 °C

   
Mohammad Al Sabban, Saudi Arabia (right)
Claudia Salerno Caldera, Venezuela
       
   
Steve Sawyer, Secretary General, Global Wind Energy Council (left), during a press conference on opportunities for wind energy solutions in developing countries
Selwin Hart, Barbados (right)
     
   
   

Sustainable Markets Foundation – 350.org: 1.5 vs 2 degrees C – press briefing on latest science and the current debate (l-r): Hans Verolme,
Chair of Climate Action Network International "Gigaton Gap" Group, May Boeve, 350.org Director, Carlos Fuller, Belize and Deputy Director
of the CARICOM Climate Change Centre (CCCC), and Ronald Jumeau, Ambassador from the Seychelles to the UN

Wednesday, 9 June
 

In the afternoon, a joint SBI/SBSTA session took place to bid farewell to UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer. In the evening, the closing plenaries of the SBI and SBSTA convened. Throughout the day, contact groups and informal consultations convened on issues including item 3 (preparation of an outcome to be presented to COP 16) under the AWG-LCA and Annex I emission reductions under the AWG-KP.

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ENB web coverage for Wednesday, 9 June

       
 
   
   
Abdullah Khalid Tawlah, Saudi Arabia, and Selwin Hart, Barbados
       
   
SBSTA Chair Mama Konaté with the Saudi Arabian delegation
SBI Chair Robert Owen-Jones (center) consults with delegates regarding organization of the high-level segment for COP 16
   
 
   
   
A view of the dais during the joint SBSTA/SBI plenary
         
 
   
   
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer offers some reflections on his tenure during the joint session
           
 
   
   
Standing ovation
             
   
Incoming UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres presented Yvo de Boer with a very large pair of shoes indicating that she has large shoes to fill
 
 
Tuesday, 8 June
 

In the morning and afternoon, contact groups and informal consultations took place on issues including national communications, the financial mechanism, review of the Adaptation Fund, and capacity building under the SBI, item 3 (preparation of an outcome to be presented to COP 16) under the AWG-LCA, and Annex I emission reductions and other issues under the AWG-KP.

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ENB web coverage for Tuesday, 8 June

     
   
G-77/China delegates consulting during the Adaptation Fund contact group
Briefing by Mexican Ambassador Luis Alfonso de Alba on Mexico's expectations for COP 16
   
   
   

A view of the dais during the contact group on the Adaptation Fund

   
   

Ato Newai, Chief Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Mohammad Reza Salamat, Secretary-General's Climate Change Support
Team
, Kjetil Lund, State Secretary Ministry of Finance, Norway, and Frank Schroeder, Secretary-General's Climate Change Support Team

 

Monday, 7 June

In the morning and afternoon, contact groups and informal consultations took place on issues including capacity building and decision 1/CP.10 (Buenos Aires programme of work) under the SBI, item 3 (preparation of an outcome to be presented to COP 16) under the AWG-LCA, Annex I emission reductions under the AWG-KP, and scientific, technical and socioeconomic aspects of mitigation under the SBSTA.

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ENB web coverage for Monday, 7 June

     
   
   

LULUCF spinoff group co-facilitators Marcelo Rocha, Brazil, and Peter Aarup Iversen, Denmark, and Annex I Parties’ emission reductions
contact group co-chairs Leon Charles, Grenada, and Jürgen Lefevere, European Commission

   
   

Participants during the UNFCCC Media Training Workshop

 
   
   

Capacity building contact group (l-r): Alla Metelitsa, Secretariat, and Co-Chairs Marie Jaudet, France, and Philip Gwage, Uganda

   
   

Incoming UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer, and Former UNFCCC Executive Secretary
Michael Zammit Cutajar

 

Sauturday, 5 June

In the morning and afternoon, contact groups and informal consultations took place on issues including Convention Article 6 (education, training and public awareness) and international transaction log fees under the SBI, item 3 (preparation of an outcome to be presented to COP 16) under the AWG-LCA and Annex I emission reductions, other issues and legal issues under the AWG-KP.

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ENB web coverage for Saturday, 5 June

       
   
   

A view of the dais during the AWG-LCA discussions on market mechanisms

Ko Barrett and Jonathan Pershing, US, during the AWG-LCA contact group on adaptation
Amjad Abdulla, Maldives, speaking for the G-77/China on adaptation
 

Maria Gutierrez, UNFCCC Secretariat, LULUCF spinoff group co-facilitators Marcelo Rocha, Brazil, and Peter Aarup Iversen, Denmark

The Secretariat hands out green ribbons to delegates for World Environment Day
   
 

Friday, 4 June

In the morning, the AWG-KP plenary convened. In the morning and afternoon, contact groups and informal consultations took place on issues including Annex I national communications and arrangements for intergovernmental meetings under the SBI, item 3 (preparation of an outcome to be presented to COP 16) under the AWG-LCA and Annex I emission reductions under the AWG-KP. A joint SBI/SBSTA contact group on technology transfer also convened in the morning. In the evening, the focal point forum under the Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation (NWP) took place.

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ENB web coverage for Friday, 4 June

   
   
   

The contact group on arrangements for intergovernmental meetings, chaired by SBI Chair Robert Owen-Jones

   
   

Nairobi Work Programme Focal Point Forum

 
   
 
Nairobi Work Programme Focal Point Forum
 

Thursday, 3 June

In the morning and afternoon, contact groups and informal consultations took place on issues including decision 1/CP.10 (Buenos Aires programme of work), review of the Adaptation Fund, arrangements for intergovernmental meetings and capacity building under the SBI, item 3 (preparation of an outcome to be presented to COP 16) under the AWG-LCA and Annex I emission reductions under the AWG-KP. In the morning and afternoon, the SBSTA research dialogue also convened, arrangements for intergovernmental meetings and capacity building under the SBI, item 3 (preparation of an outcome to be presented to COP 16) under the AWG-LCA and Annex I emission reductions under the AWG-KP. In the morning and afternoon, the SBSTA research dialogue also convened.

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ENB web coverage for Thursday, 3 June

 
 
   
   

A view of the dais during the SBSTA research dialogue

   
   

Delegates during the contact group on the Adaptation Fund

NGOs during the contact group on Article 6
Article 6 contact group Chair Liana Bratasida, Indonesia (left)
 
   
   

A view of the room during the side event on the European Union's fast start funding: state of play

 

Wednesday, 2 June

In the morning and afternoon, contact groups and informal consultations took place, including on privileges and immunities, national communications, LDCs, capacity building, financial mechanism and arrangements for intergovernmental meetings under the SBI, item 3 (preparation of an outcome to be presented to COP 16) under the AWG-LCA and Annex I emission reductions and other issues under the AWG-KP.

Read the ENB daily report with highlights from Wednesday, 2 June in English (in HTML or PDF format), French (in HTML or PDF format), Spanish (in HTML or PDF format and Japanese (in PDF format).
ENB web coverage for Wednesday, 2 June

 
   
   
   

AWG-LCA Chair Margaret Mukahanana-Sangarwe and AWG-LCA Vice-Chair Dan Reifsnyder consulting with aides and members of the Secretariat

   
   

A view of the room during the AWG-LCA contact group on finance

 

Alf Wills, South Africa, and Bernaditas Muller, the Philippines

Pablo Soĺoń Romero Oroza, Bolivia, during a press conference discussing Bolivia's submission to the AWG-LCA
   

Annex I Parties' emission reductions contact group

Contact group on the financial mechanism co-chairs Zaheer Fakir, South Africa, and Sandrine de Guio, France
     
   
   

Peter Betts, UK, speaking for the EU, in the AWG-LCA

 

Tuesday, 1 June

In the morning, the opening plenaries of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the UNFCCC (AWG-LCA) and the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP) took place. In the afternoon, the AWG-LCA opening plenary continued. Contact groups also convened on technology transfer under the SBI/SBSTA, and non-Annex I national communications.

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ENB web coverage for Tuesday, 1 June

 
     

AWG-LCA Chair Margaret Mukahanana-Sangarwe, Zimbabwe (center)

Ian Fry, Tuvalu, and Bernaditas Muller, the Philippines

Dessima Williams, Grenada, speaking for AOSIS
   

Lan Marie Ngyen Berg, Norwegian Forum for Environment and Development, speaking for Youth (center)

Technology transfer contact group Co-Chairs Carlos Fuller, Belize, and
Ronald Schillemans, the Netherlands, speak with delegates and members of the Secretariat

A view of the room during the AWG-KP plenary
   
 

Monday, 31 May

The 32nd sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) and Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) held their opening plenaries on Monday morning and afternoon. The SBI took up issues including the financial mechanism, capacity building, technology and national communications. The SBSTA considered, inter alia, reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD), technology, Nairobi work programme on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability (NWP), as well as methodological issues.

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ENB web coverage for Monday, 31 May

 
       

A view of the room during the opening SBI plenary session

Climate Action Network press conference (left to right): Kaisa Kosonen, Greenpeace International, Alden Meyer, Union of Concerned Scientists,
and Raman Mehta, ActionAid, India

   
   

EU press conference (left to right): Peter Wittoeck, Belgium, Alicia Montalvo, Spain, and Artur Runge-Metzger, European Commission

 

Wanna Tanunchaiwatana, UNFCCC Secretariat, and SBSTA Chair Mama Konaté, Mali

SBI Chair Robert Owen-Jones (second from right)
 
Abdullah Mohamed Alsaidi, Yemen, speaking for the G-77/China
Delegates during the SBSTA plenary
 
 
 
Jürgen Nimptsch, Mayor of Bonn, Christiana Figueres, and Yvo de Boer during a farewell reception for Yvo de Boer hosted by the German government and the City of Bonn
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer
   
Aysar Tayeb, Saudi Arabia, and Yvo de Boer
Karstan Sach, Germany, gives a farewell speech to Yvo de Boer
 
Related Links
UNFCCC resources
*Meeting web site
*SBI 32 agenda
*SBSTA 32 agenda
*AWG-KP 11 agenda
*AWG-LCA 9 agenda
*Side Event schedule
*Scenario note for AWG-KP
*Documentation to facilitate negotiations among Parties. Note by the Chair. Addendum. Proposed amendments to the Kyoto Protocol pursuant to its Article 3, paragraph 9.
*Documentation to facilitate negotiations among Parties. Note by the Chair. Addendum. Land use, land-use change and forestry.
*Documentation to facilitate negotiations among Parties. Note by the Chair. Addendum. Emissions trading and the project based mechanisms.
*Documentation to facilitate negotiations among Parties. Note by the Chair. Addendum. Greenhouse gases, sectors and source categories; common metrics to calculate the carbon dioxide equivalence of anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks; and other methodological issues.
*Documentation to facilitate negotiations among Parties. Note by the Chair. Addendum. Consideration of information on potential environmental, economic and social consequences, including spillover effects, of tools, policies, measures and methodologies available to Annex I Parties.
*Issues relating to the transformation of pledges for emission reductions into quantified emission limitation and reduction objectives. Technical paper.
*Scenario note for AWG-LCA
*Additional views on which the Chair may draw in preparing text to facilitate negotiations among Parties. Submissions from Parties.
*Additional views on which the Chair may draw in preparing text to facilitate negotiations among Parties. Submissions from Parties. Addendum.
*Views on an indicative roadmap. Submissions from Parties.
*Documents for SBI
*Documents for SBSTA

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