Summary
The Bonn Climate Change Conference continued on Tuesday morning with the opening of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement (APA) and a Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) informal consultation. In the afternoon, several contact groups and informal consultations under the SBSTA and Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) convened. The SBI and SBSTA plenaries resumed to hear opening statements and consider outstanding agenda items. A SBSTA workshop on types of revegetation activities potentially eligible as Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project activities also took place in the afternoon.
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APA Opening Plenary
Richard Kinley, UNFCCC Deputy Executive Secretary, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres, and Laurence Tubiana, COP 21/CMP 11 Presidency, applaud the election of the new APA Co-Chairs
APA Co-Chair Sarah Baashan, Saudi Arabia
APA Co-Chair Jo Tyndall, New Zealand
Laurence Tubiana, COP 21/
CMP 11 Presidency
Zamba Batjargal, Mongolia
María Laura Rojas Vallejo, Colombia, speaking on behalf of the Independent Alliance of Latin America and the Carribean (AILAC)
Manasvi Srisodapol, Thailand, speaking
on behalf of the G-77/China
Ivo de Zwaan, EU
Patrick Suckling, Australia, speaking
on behalf of the Umbrella Group
Rosilena Lindo, Panama, speaking
on behalf of the Coalition for
Rainforest Nations (CfRN)
Hussein Alfa Nafo, Mali, speaking on behalf of the African Group
Franz Perrez, Switzerland, speaking
on behalf of the Environmental
Integrity Group (EIG)
Isabel Teresa Di Carlo Quero, Venezuela, speaking on behalf
of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA)
Olga Vavilonskaya, Belarus
Tunga Bhadra Rai,
Indigenous Peoples
Norine Kennedy, Business and Industry NGOs (BINGOs)
Anabella Rosemberg, Trade Union NGOs (TUNGOs)
SBI Plenary
View of the dais during the SBI plenary
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres
SBI Chair Tomasz Chruszczow, Poland
Lydie-Line Paroz, Youth NGOs (YOUNGOs)
Inga Fritzen Buan,
Climate Action Network (CAN)
Franziska Loibl, Women and Gender
SBI Vice-Chair Zhihua Chen, China
Tosi Mpanu-Mpanu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
SBSTA Plenary
View of the dais during the SBSTA plenary
SBSTA Chair Carlos Fuller, Belize
Alejandro Rivera, Mexico
Marilyn Averill, Research and Independent NGOs (RINGOs)
Katherine Sawyer, Climate Justice Now! (CJN!)
Contact Groups
SBSTA/SBI joint contact group on the scope of the next periodic review of the long-term global goal
under the Convention, and of overall progress towards achieving it
SBI contact group on arrangements for intergovernmental meetings
SBI/SBSTA joint contact group on impact of the implementation of response measures: improved forum and work programme
SBSTA In-Session Workshop
Panel speakers for a SBSTA in-session workshop to identify the types of revegetation activities
potentially eligible as project activities under the CDM
Co-Chair Maya Hunt, New Zealand
Co-Chair José Antonio Prado, Chile
Ivan Dario Valencia, Colombia
Belinda Margono, Indonesia
Around the Venue
Delegates gather in the foyer before the start of plenary
Delegates meet informally
El Hadji Mbaye Diagne and Mamadou Diobe Gueye, Senegal
Delegates from Norway
Translation headsets
Delegates between sessions
A delegate looks at a photography
exhibition about COP 21/CMP 11
Heinz Sturm, International Clean Energy Partnership Foundation, test drives a 'zero emissions' car on display at the venue
