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Twenty-Fourth sessions of the
Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA)
and the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) of the UNFCCC
and First session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further
Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG)
and related meetings
15-26 May 2006 | Bonn, Germany |
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Highlights for
Thursday, 18 May 2006
Above
photo: Susan Njuguna (Kenya), with Susy Wandera (Climate
Network Africa) and Nicholas Gakiha (Kenya), giving John
Hay (UNFCCC) information regarding COP 12 accommodations in
Nairobi, Kenya.
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The 24th sessions
of the UNFCCC Subsidiary Bodies (SB 24) started on Thursday morning.
The Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA)
considered agenda items on the adaptation programme of work,
deforestation in developing countries, technology transfer, research
and systematic observation, and a range of methodological issues.
The Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) took up issues such as
capacity building, administrative and financial matters, amendment
of the Kyoto Protocol with regards to the compliance mechanism, the
international transaction log, privileges and immunities for members
of bodies constituted under the Kyoto Protocol, and national
communications. On Thursday evening, the Ad
Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties
under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG) met to begin informal consultations,
and contact groups convened on deforestation and adaptation.
More information
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Subsidiary Body for
Implementation: |
| Above
photos: SBI Chair Thomas Becker; view of the
packed SBI session. |
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photos L-R:
On capacity building a delegate from JAPAN
said the monitoring process should be streamlined. Feng
Gao, Deputy Executive Secretary of the SBI and the AWG. |
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Subsidiary Body for
Scientific and Technological Advice: |
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| Above
photo L-R: SBSTA Chair Kishan Kumarsingh (
Trinidad and Tobago
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agenda for adoption. |
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On
the Adoption of the Agenda, the
US
objected to the inclusion of the Mauritius Strategy
under agenda item 12a on Cooperation with Relevant
International Organizations. On Deforestation, many
parties commented on the importance and multiple
benefits of reducing emissions from deforestation,
with
Papua New Guinea and others emphasizing the need for
positive incentives.
Above photos L-R: Christo Artusio (US); Robert
G. Aisi and Kevin Mark Conrad (Papua New
Guinea) |
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| Above
photos L-R: Thelma Krug, IPCC, presented the
IPCC 2006 Guidelines. Enele Sopoaga
and Ian Fry (Tuvalu)
, for AOSIS, stressed the complexity of deforestation. |
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On
Technology Transfer, William Agyemang-Bonsu, Ghana, speaking for the G-77/China
(above left), underscored
adaptation technologies and South-South cooperation,
and suggested technology needs assessments be made
available to SBI. On the IPCC 2006 Guidelines for
National GHG inventories, International Hydropower Association urged careful consideration of the section
on flooded lands.
Above photos L-R: Delegates from Ghana; Richard
Taylor (International Hydropower Association) and Kirsten
Macey (Climate Action Network Europe).
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Contact Group:
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photos L-R: Contact Group on Reducing emissions from
deforestation co-chaired by Audun Rosland (Norway) and Hernán Carlino
(Argentina); view of the contact group session on deforestation. |
| Above photos L-R: Michael Zammit Cutajar, AWG
Chair, and Henning Wüster (UNFCCC); view of
the informal session on AWG |
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