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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
Monday,
8 December
Delegates
to COP-9 met in contact groups and informal consultations
to continue their deliberations. Parties discussed: R&SO;
good practice guidance on LULUCF; implementation of decision
5/CP.7 (implementation of UNFCCC Article 4.8 and 4.9 on adverse
effects); methodological issues; among others.
The UNFCCC
held a senior-level event in Plenary this morning, and there
were several press conferences.
- Click
here to read a full text report on today's events
(Coverage of UNFCCC COP-9 side events)
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In
the COP-9 hallways today, demonstrators played Russian
music, danced and waved signs in efforts to call attention
to the Kyoto ratification situation
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| Senior-level
UNFCCC event on enabling environments for technology transfer:
From negotiation to implementation - lets make it work! -
watch the Secretariat's webcast of
this event. |
SBSTA Chair
Halldór Thorgeirsson (Iceland)
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Janos Pasztor, Head of the Sustainable Development Programme
, Secretariat; and Joke Waller-Hunter, UNFCCC Executive Secretary |
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Plenary panel members, left to right: Joke
Waller-Hunter, UNFCCC Executive Secretary; Halldór
Thorgeirsson SBSTA
Chair; José
Ovalle, Director for Environment, Chile; Charles Nicholson,
Senior Adviser, British Petroleum (UK)
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Corrado
Clini, Italian Ministry for the Environment |
Alessandro Clerici, Chairman of the World Energy Council Italian
Committee (Italy)
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Charles
Nicholson, Senior Adviser, British Petroleum (UK)
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Gao
Feng, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, China |
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Group on Research and Systematic Observation: this
group finalized its consideration of the draft COP decision
and SBSTA conclusions.
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Contact
group Co-Chair Philip
Gwage of Uganda discussing documents (2nd from right)
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Contact
group Co-Chair Sue
Barrell of Australia (on right, at panel) |
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Group on Good Practice Guidance and Other Information on Land
use, Land-use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) |
Left
to right: Claudio Forner (Secretariat); contact group Co-Chairs
Margaret Mukahanana-Sangarwe (Zimbabwe) and Audun Rosland
(Norway); Heikki Granholm (Secretariat)
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Bill
Irving (US) participating in the LULUCF negotiations
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The contact
group on good practice guidance and other information on LULUCF
finalized draft conclusions and COP decisions after a morning
and afternoon session today. Their work focused on: common
reporting formats; deforestation and devegetation;
factoring
out direct human-induced changes in
carbon stocks from natural effects; and harvested wood
products.
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Ian
Fry (Tuvalu) |
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Group on Progress Under the Implementation of Activities Under
Decision 5/CP.7 |
Contact
group Co-Chairs Al Waleed Hamad Al-Malik (United Arab Emirates)
and Robert Mason (UK)
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Delegates
from the EU participating in the contact group deliberations |
Members
of the contact group speaking with Co-Chair Margaret
Mukahanana-Sangarwe (Zimbabwe)
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In
the afternoon, the Parties in this contact group met to consider
the initial paragraphs of a draft decision on adverse effects
of climate change (Decision 5/CP.7).
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| Interviews,
Conversations and Press Conferences around the COP |
ENB's
Richard Sherman and Lisa Schipper interviewing Joke Waller-Hunter
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Hironori
Hamanaka, of Japan's Ministry of the Environment, consulting
with Jennifer Morgan (WWF)
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David
Garman, US Department of Energy, outlined US energy policy during
the US Delegation press conference
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- The
Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) interviewed Joke Waller-Hunter
this afternoon in preparation for the Analysis and Final
Summary of the COP-9, which will be published on Monday,
15 December.
- A
high-level Japanese government official was seen conversing
with Jennifer Morgan in the COP-9 corridors this afternoon
(WWF).
The Secretariat has recorded 5 press conferences today.
Watch and listen to:
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This
service was prepared in cooperation with the Climate Change Secretariat
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