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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
Monday, 22 May 2006
Above
photo L-R: Delegates from the G77/China, the
EU and Canada in informal consultation during an afternoon session of the Contact Group on
the Special Climate
Change Fund.
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Contact groups
and informal consultations were held throughout Monday on a wide
range of issues, including adaptation, the Adaptation Fund,
arrangements for intergovernmental meetings, capacity building
(under both the Convention and the Protocol), deforestation, review
of the financial mechanism, research and systematic observation, the
Special Climate Change Fund and technology transfer. In addition,
informal consultations continued under the AWG, and an in-session
workshop on carbon capture and storage under the CDM took place.
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ADAPTATION:
In the morning
contact group, Co-Chair Plume presented draft
conclusions containing initial activities of the
five-year programme of work on adaptation. These were
taken up in informal consultations throughout Monday
afternoon and evening.
Above photos L-R: Co-Chair William Kojo
Agyemang-Bonsu (Ghana), Co-Chair Helen Plume
(New Zealand), and Olga Pilifosova, UNFCCC
Secretariat.
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view of the session of the Contact Group on
Adaptation; Alf Wills (South Africa) consulting
with delegates from the G77/China. |
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ADAPTATION
FUND -KYOTO PROTOCOL:
Delegates
considered whether to accept the co-chairs’ text as
the basis for negotiations.
Above
photos L-R: Daniele Violetti, UNFCCC
Secretariat; Co-Chair Marcia Levaggi
(Argentina); Co-Chair Karsten Sach (Germany)
and Maria Netto, UNFCCC Secretariat; the
Philippines in discussion with Iran.
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SPECIAL
CLIMATE CHANGE FUND: During
informal discussions in the early afternoon,
delegates discussed separate proposals from the Chair
and the G-77/China for the paragraph on financing activities
set out in Decision 7/CP.7, paragraph 2(d) (funding
under the Convention).
Above photos L-R: Delegate from Canada reading the
draft text on the Special Climate Change Fund;
Co-Chair Bubu Jallow (The Gambia) in discussion
with Alexis Conrad, ENB
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FINANCIAL
MECHANISM: Delegates
met informally during the day and in a contact group
in the evening, at which time copies were distributed
of a G-77/China proposal, an EU proposal, and a
compilation of the proposals prepared by the
Co-Chairs.
Above
photos L-R: Co-Chair Marcia Levaggi
(Argentina), Bernarditas Mueller (The
Philippines), and Co-Chair Karsten Sach
(Germany);
Ricardo Moita (Portugal) (center) speaking to Maria
Netto, UNFCCC Secretariat and Bernarditas
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RESEARCH
AND SYSTEMATIC OBSERVATION: Informal
consultations were held in the morning and afternoon
before the contact group reconvened in the evening.
Discussions focused on a bracketed paragraph on next
steps and how to best facilitate interactive dialogue
between parties, research programmes and the IPCC.
Above
photos L-R: Delegates actively exchanging views during
an informal session of the Contact Group on Research
and Systematic Observation; Co-Chair María Paz
Cigarán (Peru) speaking with Miquel Muñoz,
ENB. |
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AWG:
Delegates
met in informal consultations during the morning and
the afternoon. In the morning, parties restated their
positions, with talks focusing on what to include and
what not to include in the group’s future
discussions. Delegates underscored, inter
alia, a sectoral approach, bunker fuels, and
forestry. In addition, the EU provided background
information with regard to its emissions reduction
targets.
In the afternoon, delegates discussed the possibility
of a workshop or other means to consider the
scientific basis for Kyoto Protocol Article 3.9 (Annex
I parties’ future commitments).
In the evening, a draft Chair’s text on
an approach to possible conclusions was distributed.
Above
photos L-R: Delegates form Peru, Egypt and Saudi
Arabia in a friendly conversation before the start of
the Informals on the AWG; Maria Andrea Albán
Durán (Colombia) speaking with AWG Chair
Michael Zammit Cutajar. |
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BUNKER
FUELS: In
informal consultations on emissions from fuel used for
international aviation and maritime transport, little
progress was reported, with
some parties expressing the view that forward movement
was not possible without progress in other areas, such
as Protocol Article 2.3 (adverse effects).
Above
photos L-R: Delegates huddling outside the Informals
on Bunker Fuels; José Romero (Switzerland)
(left) facilitating the Informals on Bunker
Fuels, with Stelios Pesmajoglou, UNFCCC
Secretariat. |
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An
in-session workshop on carbon capture and storage
(CCS) as CDM project activities convened on Monday.
Session Co-Chairs Georg Børsting (Norway) and Hernán
Carlino (Argentina) explained that the aim of the
workshop was to open a dialogue regarding submissions
to the Secretariat, as outlined in Decision 7/CMP.1,
on the consideration of CCS as CDM project activities.
This would take into account issues relating to
project boundary, leakage and permanence.
Above
photo L-R: Heleen de Coninck, Energy Research
Centre of the Netherlands (ECN); Sudhir Sharma,
UNFCCC Secretariat, Grant Kirkman, UNFCCC Secretariat;
Co-Chair Georg
Børsting (Norway); Hernán
Carlino (Argentina) and
Janos Pazstor, UNFCCC Secretariat. |
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| Above
photo L-R: Grant Kirkman, UNFCCC
Secretariat; view of the morning session of the
workshop. |
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| The
World Cup of SB 24: |
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photos: In the traditional Sunday Soccer pre-World Cup
qualifying extravaganza, the multi-colored team
finally prevailed against the blue-gray team - 4-3
after a second half winner by UK's Terry Carrington!
A great time was had by all. Cheers! |
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