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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
Wednesday,
3 December
This morning during the COP-9, Delegates continued to convene
in meetings of the SBSTA and the SBI and in contact and informal
groups.
Today's contact groups included: national communications from
non-Annex I Parties; definitions and modalities for including
afforestation/reforestation activities under Article 12 of
the Kyoto Protocol (LULUCF); capacity-building; development
and transfer of technologies; among others.
- Click
here for to read a full text report on today's events
(Coverage of UNFCCC COP-9 side events)
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Adam
Bumpus being interviewed in front of the Responding
to Climate Change (RTCC) display in the COP-9 foyer.
The "Mona Lisa" in the background is a live
mime.
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Delegate from Australia intervening during this morning's SBSTA
meeting
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SUBSIDIARY
BODY FOR SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL ADVICE (SBSTA)
During
the 4th meeting of the SBSTA, delegates discussed: cleaner
or less-greenhouse-gas-emitting energy; implementation of
Protocol Article 2.3; activities implemented jointly; and
the Brazilian proposal.
Watch
the Secretariat's webcast of the 4th
SBSTA meeting of COP-9
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The SBSTA held their 4th meeting of COP-9 this morning
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Delegates of the Russian Federation supported Canada's proposal
that SBSTA request views from Parties on cleaner or less-greenhouse-gas-emitting
energy issues
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SBI
Delegate William Kojo Agyemang-Bonsu (Ghana)
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SUBSIDIARY
BODY FOR IMPLEMENTATION (SBI)
During
the 4th meeting of the SBI, delegates discussed: administrative
and financial matters; the programme budget for the biennium
2004-5; organizational matters; national communications from
parties not included in Annex I; and, implementation of articles
4.8 & 4.9.
Watch
the Secretariat's webcast of the 4th
SBI meeting of COP-9
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Joke Waller-Hunter, UNFCCC Executive Secretary
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SBI Coordinator Luis Gomez-Echeverri |
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SBI
Chair Daniela Stoycheva (Bulgaria) |
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group on National Communications from Non-Annex I Parties
This
contact group discussed the proposed work programme of the
Consultative Group of Experts (CGE) on non-Annex I national
communications.
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Participants
of the contact group on national communications, with Lisa
Schipper of the ENB (far right)
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Contact group panel members Philip Weech (Secretariat); Brian
Challenger, CGE Chair; Sok Appadu, contact group Chair; Martha
Perdomo (Secretariat); and Graham Sem (Secretariat) |
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Brian Challenger, CGE Chair presented the CGE's work programme
for 2003-7
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Panel and participants of the LULUCF Definitions contact group
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Contact
Group on Land use, Land-use Change and Forestry (LULUCF):
Definitions and Modalities for Including Afforestaion and
Reforestation Activities Under Article 12 of the Kyoto Protocol
This
group discussed LULUCF under the Clean Development Mechanism
(Article 12). Karsten Sach warned the delegates to get a good
night's sleep tonight because they must finish their work
by Monday, making it clear that there is a lot yet to be done.
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Karsten Sach (Germany), LULUCF Definitions contact group Co-Chair
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Thelma
Krug (Brazil), LULUCF Definitions contact group Co-Chair
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Riccardo
Valentini (Italy) and Jim Penman (UK) are among the participants
of this contact group |
Dechen
Tsering (Bhutan), capacity-building contact group Chair
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Contact
Group on Capacity-building
This
group discussed the implementation of the framework for capacity-building
in developing countries.
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Barbara
de Rosa-Joynt (US), intervening during the capacity-building
contact group meeting |
Left to right: Development and transfer of technologies contact
group Co-Chairs Terry Carrington (UK) and Kishan Kumarsingh
(Trinidad and Tobago)
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Contact
Group on the Development and Transfer of Technologies
This group discussed
the Expert Group on Technology Tranfer's (EGTT) draft programme
of work.
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Vanessa Atkinson of Greenpeace New Zealand presented today's
Fossil of the Day award
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Fossil
of the Day Award
Everyday
at 6pm during the Climate Negotiations, the Fossil of the
Day award is presented to countries that they deem "most
active in blocking, stalling, or undermining the most recent
UN climate change negotiations". Today's first place
winners were: Canada, Japan, Argentina, France and Ireland
- for not supporting the clear exclusion of genetically modified
organisms (GMOs).
For more
information, see http://www.fossil-of-the-day.org/
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Delegates
meeting informally in the Plenary room to discuss COP-9 issues |
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