To adopt or not
to adopt? That was the question facing delegates to the UN
Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) when the Chair presented
a “take it or leave it” draft during the meeting’s final hours. …
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Lynn Wagner, Ph.D.
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UNFCCC SUBSIDIARY BODIES CONCLUDE WORK IN
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Bonn, 19 May—Delegates
to the twenty-sixth sessions of the Subsidiary
Bodies of the UN Framework Convention on Climate
Change (UNFCCC), which convened in Bonn, Germany,
from 7-18 May 2007, have adopted 27 conclusions and
six draft decisions to forward to the climate change
meetings to take place in December 2007 in Bali,
Indonesia. Also taking place in Bonn were the third
session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on
Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the
Kyoto Protocol (AWG) and the third workshop under
the Dialogue on long-term cooperative action to
address climate change by enhancing implementation
of the Convention.
More.
Photo: L-R: UNFCCC Executive Secretariat Yvo de Boer;
SBI Coordinator Vitaly Matsarski; and SBI
Chair Bagher Asadi after the conclusion of
the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI)
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CSD-15 CONCLUDES WITHOUT ADOPTING NEGOTIATED
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UN headquarters, New York, 12 May—Delegates
at the fifteenth session of the UN Commission on
Sustainable Development (CSD-15), which convened
from 30 April-11 May 2007, at UN headquarters in New
York, US, attempted to negotiate an agreement on
policy options in the areas of energy for
sustainable development, industrial development, air
pollution/atmosphere and climate change. However, as
the scheduled close of the meeting approached,
numerous unresolved issues remained in the energy
for sustainable development and climate change
sections of the document. Chair Abdullah bin Hamad
Al-Attiyah (Qatar) presented a compromise document
on a “take it or leave it” basis, but the EU and
Switzerland rejected it so a “Chair’s Summary” of
CSD-15 will be issued.
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Photo: CSD-15 Chair Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Attiyah
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TROPICAL TIMBER COUNCIL SELECTS NEW
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR |
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Port Moresby, 13 May—The
forty-second session of the International Tropical
Timber Council (ITTC-42), which took place from 7-12
May 2007 in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, selected
Emmanuel Ze Meka (Cameroon) as the new Executive
Director of the International Tropical Timber
Organization (ITTO), after much heated debate.
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Photo: The Council voted on whether to hold a vote
on the selection of Executive Director. |
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IPCC EMPHASIZES POTENTIAL TO MITIGATE GLOBAL
EMISSIONS |
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Bangkok, 5 May—The
ninth session of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group III (WGIII) met
in Bangkok, Thailand, from 30 April-4 May 2007,
followed by the 26th session of the IPCC on 4 May.
The meeting resulted in the acceptance of WGIII’s
contribution to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report,
titled “Climate Change 2007: Mitigation of Climate
Change,” including approval of the Summary for
Policy Makers (SPM) and acceptance of the underlying
report and technical summary.
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POPs COP-3 ADOPTS 22 DECISIONS |
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Dakar, 5 May—Participants
at the third meeting of the Conference of the
Parties (COP-3) to the Stockholm Convention on
Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), which convened
from 30 April-4 May 2007, in Dakar, Senegal, adopted
22 decisions on, inter alia: a revised
process for the review of entries in the register of
specific exemptions; DDT; measures to reduce or
eliminate releases from wastes; guidelines on the
standardized toolkit for identification and
quantification of releases; and guidelines on best
available techniques (BAT) and draft guidance on
best environmental practices (BEP).
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Forests, Desertification and Land Issues |
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Water, oceans and wetlands |
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First Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the
Framework Convention for the Protection of the Marine
Environment of the Caspian Sea:
23-25 May 2007, Baku, Azerbaijan
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Sixth Ordinary Session of the African Ministers’ Council on
Water:
28-31 May 2007, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo |
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Fifty-ninth Annual Meeting of the International Whaling
Commission:
28-31 May 2007, Anchorage, Alaska, US |
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World Congress on Advancing Sustainable Hydropower:
29-31 May 2007, Antalya, Turkey |
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Fourteenth Conference of the Parties to CITES:
3-15 June 2007, The Hague, the Netherlands |
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27th Meeting of the Open-Ended Working Group of the Montreal
Protocol:
4-7 June 2007, Nairobi, Kenya |
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GEF Council Meeting:
4-8 June 2007, Washington DC, US |
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World Environment Day Celebrations:
5 June 2007, Berlin, Germany |
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First session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk
Reduction:
5-7 June 2007, Geneva, Switzerland |
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