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Highlights from
Tuesday, 14 November:
Delegates
to COP-6 and the resumed SB-13 convened in contact groups during
morning, afternoon and evening sessions to discuss text and advance
discussions on: land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF);
guidelines under Protocol Articles 5 (methodological issues), 7
(communication of information) and 8 (review of information);
adverse effects; “best practices” in policies and measures;
development and transfer of technologies; mechanisms; and capacity
building in economies in transition. The Joint Working Group on
Compliance (JWG) also met to resume its consideration of negotiating
text.
Above photo: Co-Chairs
Tuiloma Neroni Slade (second from left) and Harald Dovland (right)
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 Co-Chair Neroni
Slade (Samoa) introduced a revised text based on intersessional
consultations following SB-13 Part 1. On the inclusion of principles
within the text, the G-77/CHINA, opposed by the US and JAPAN, urged
their retention, noting that a number of the proposed principles are
not set out in UNFCCC Article 3 (principles).
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Contact Group: Technology Transfer
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 This contact group
considered the Co-Chairs’ revised text on a framework to enhance
the implementation of UNFCCC Article 4.5 (development and transfer
of technologies). Following discussion on the text, delegates heard
a brief presentation by the Secretariat on a technology transfer
clearinghouse. The new Co-Chairs’ text also contains three
additional appendices relating to: an international clearinghouse;
capacity-building activities on technology transfer; and preliminary
ideas for Terms of Reference for the “international panel of
experts on technology transfer” or the “advisory group of
experts on technology transfer.”
Left photo: Co-Chair Jean Cooper
speaks with Sheik Khan, Guyana, representing the G-77/China
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US proposed text encouraging developing countries to “promote
efficiently functioning environmentally-sound technology
markets through the appropriate structuring of taxes and to
promote the accumulation of accurate, timely and reliable
information on various elements of their economies where
projects may be undertaken under the CDM.”
Left photo (L-R) Franklin Moore, Elmer Holt and Duncan Marsh,
US Delegation
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Emily
Ojoo-Massawa (Kenya) speaks with the delegate from Ghana |
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Contact Group: Policies and Measures
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Mohammad
Salem Al Sabban of SAUDI ARABIA rejected Chair Roméro’s
proposal to establish a Friends of the Chair group to develop
compromise text on policies and measures. He said that if this
group was established he would withdraw support for the proposed
“informal informal” consultations in the contact group on
mechanisms, and threatened to “destroy that one as well”. 
In
response, Chair Roméro jokingly responded that he had a
delicate heart and that he was suffering from the threat of
blackmail.
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Policies and Measures Co-Chair Richard Muyungi
(Tanzania)
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US
Press Conference (Photo from left): David Sandalow, Assistant Secretary
of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific
Affairs, US Department of State and Mark Hambley, US Special Negotiator
on Climate Change.
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Representatives from AOSIS discussed the specific vulnerabilities
that small island states face with respect to the effects of climate
change
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