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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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Earth Negotiations
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Highlights for
Saturday, 20 May 2006
Above
photo L-R: Delegates from the G77/China consulting
during an afternoon session of the Contact Group on Special Climate
Change Fund.
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Contact groups
and informal consultations were held throughout Saturday on a wide
range of issues, including adaptation, the Adaptation Fund,
arrangements for intergovernmental meetings, deforestation, IPCC
2006 Guidelines and harvested wood products, privileges and
immunities, research and systematic observation, and the Special
Climate Change Fund (SCCF). In addition, bilateral and small group
consultations continued under the AWG, and an in-session workshop
was held on carbon capture and storage.
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ARRANGEMENTS FOR INTERGOVERNMENTAL MEETINGS:
Co-Chair Wörgetter
drew attention to the Earth
Negotiations Bulletin’s “In The Corridors”
section, which noted concerns about “meeting
fatigue.” She observed that this was an issue for
future meeting planning.
Richard Kinley, UNFCCC Officer-in-Charge,
briefed parties on planning for COP 12 and COP/MOP 2,
observing that the complex agendas and proliferation
of events meant constraints on the number of contact
group meetings and the possibility that some work
would not be completed.
Above photos L-R: Chad Carpenter, UNFCCC
Secretariat, and Richard Kinley, UNFCCC
Officer-in-Charge; Co-Chairs Aloisia Wörgetter
(Austria) and Sandea De Wet (South Africa).
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PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES:
Delegates
discussed a text listing options for protecting
individuals serving on constituted bodies under the
Protocol from legal actions, including a COP/MOP
decision granting them privileges and immunities,
written confirmation from private entities to settle
all disputes at the Secretariat’s headquarters and ad
hoc arrangements.
Above
photos L-R: View of the negotiations during a contact
group session on Priviliges and Immunities; delegates
from Argentina and Brazil in consultation.
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DEFORESTATION:
Co-Chairs
Hernán Carlino (Argentina) and Audun
Rosland (Norway) presented draft text on the
possible scope of the upcoming workshop on reducing
emissions from deforestation.
BRAZIL
stressed that there should be no references to the
Protocol or trading mechanisms.
Above photos L-R: Co-Chair Audun Rosland
consulting with delegates and Jenny Wong, UNFCCC
Secretariat; Raphael Azeredo in discussion with
Thelma Krug and other members from the
Brazilian delegation.
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photos L-R: Delegates from the US consulting;
Chilean delegate reading the new draft text. |
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An
in-session workshop on carbon dioxide capture and
storage (CCS) convened Saturday. SBSTA Chair Kishan
Kumarsingh explained that the workshop’s
objective was to improve understanding of CCS through
an overview of the IPCC Special Report, noting that it
underscores CCS’s potential and highlights
financial, social, environmental, legal, public
perception and safety issues. He also indicated that
the workshop would highlight experiences and lessons
learned and said he would prepare a report for
consideration at SBSTA 25.
Above
photo L-R: Halldor
Thorgeirsson,
SBSTA Coordinator and SBSTA Chair Kishan Kumarsingh (Trinidad and Tobago) presided over the workshop on Carbon
Dioxide Capture and Storage; view of the presentation
during the workshop. |
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photos L-R: Delegates from the US and Portugal; ENGOS
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