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United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
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Ninth
Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on
Climate Change
Milan,
Italy, 1- 12 Dec., 2003
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UNFCCC
COP-9 HIGHLIGHTS
Friday,
12 December
Delegates
to COP-9 met on Friday morning and afternoon in Plenary to
adopt reports of the Subsidiary Bodies (SBI and SBSTA) and
decisions and conclusions arising there from.
Informal
consultations on the Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF) took
place in the morning and finished in the early afternoon.
Consultations on Least Developed Countries issues started
in the morning and were concluded in the early evening.
Click
here to read the final summary and analysis of COP-9.
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COP-9
President Miklós Persányi gavels through the
decisions during the morning Plenary
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COP-9 President Miklós
Persányi shakes hands with Richard Kinley, Secretary
of the COP, at the closing of the COP |
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MORNING
PLENARY
Decisions
adopted included: COP/MOP on sinks under the CDM; capacity
building; national communications; among many others.
 Watch
the Secretariat's webcast of the morning
Plenary meeting,
held from 11:30 a.m. to .1:10 p.m.
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SBSTA
Chair
Halldór Thorgeirsson (Iceland) reporting on his group's
work during the a.m. Plenary
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Delegates from Algeria and Albania consulting the documents
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Alexander Metalnikov, Russia, intervening in this morning's
Plenary meeting |
Joke-Waller Hunter (UNFCCC Executive Secretary) and COP-9 President
Miklós
Persányi on
the panel of this morning's Plenary.
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G.O.P. Obasi, Secretary General of the World Meteorological
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Informal
Consultations on the Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF): The
Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF) reached agreement in the
early afternoon on outstanding elements in the draft decision.
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Tibor Faragó (Hungary), facilitor of the
SCCF on behalf of the COP president
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Delegates holding Informal consultations of the
SCCF
this morning
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Informal
Consultations on the Least Developed Countries (LDCs)
Fund : Informal consultations on Least Developed
Countries (LDC) issues started in the morning and concluded
in the early evening.
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Participants
in the morning session of informal coon
the LDC issues sultations
on LDC issues |
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José Romero (Switzerland) and Mamadou Honadia (Burkina
Faso), facilitators of the LCD consultations under the SBI,
with Yossef Nassef (Secretariat)
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Richard Muyungi (Tanzania), Chair of the LDC consultations,
with Mamadou
Honadia (Burkina Faso) |
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Participants
at the afternoon session of the informal consultations on
LDC issues
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Participants
at the close of the informal consultations on
LDC issues |
Left-right: Luis Gomez-Echeverri (SBI Coordinator) Daniela Stoycheva,
SBI Chair; Joke-Waller Hunter, UNFCCC Executive Secretary;
COP-9 President Miklós
Persányi; Richard Kinley (Secretary of the COP)
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AFTERNOON
PLENARY
Delegates
reconvened in the afternoon to finish the work of COP-9. In
addition, the COP welcomed the Argentina's offer to
host COP-10.
Watch the Secretariat's webcast of the afternoon
Plenary meeting,
held
from 4:30 to 6:48.afternoon.
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Delegate from Tanzania intervenes during the afternoon Plenary
session
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Raul Estrada, Argentina, intervening during the afternoon
Plenary session
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Gonzalo Menéndez, Rapporteur (Panama) |
Joke-Waller Hunter, UNFCCC Executive Secretary leaving Plenary
with COP-9 President Miklós
Persányi
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Corrado Clini (Italy), speaking on behalf of the EU |
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Murray
Ward (New Zealand), Dagmar
Lohan (ENB) and Steven Guilbeault (Greenpeace International)
discussing the LDC
Fund
negotiations.
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Jürgen
Trittin, Federal Minister for the
Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
(Germany)
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Watch the secretariat's webcast of Press
conference with Jürgen Trittin
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The
ENB Team
Left-right: Fiona Koza (Canada), Mar�a Guti�rrez (Mexico), Dagmar
Lohan (Germany/Czech Republic), Richard Sherman (South Africa),
Leila Mead (USA), Lisa Schipper (Sweden), Leslie Paas (Canada),
David Fernau (Sweden/South Africa) and Hugh Wilkins (Canada).
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This
service was prepared in cooperation with the Climate Change Secretariat
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