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June 2009 Climate Talks Underway in Bonn |
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Wednesday, 03 June 2009 09:46 |
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From 1-12 June 2009, several meetings are taking place in Bonn, Germany, as part of ongoing negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol. The Convention’s subsidiary bodies, the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) and the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), will hold their 30th sessions. Longer-term aspects of international climate change cooperation will be considered by the sixth session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA 6) and the eighth session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP 8). The two AWGs are scheduled to conclude their work by the fifteenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December 2009.
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Bonn Climate Change Talks |
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Monday, 30 March 2009 14:22 |
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Bonn, Germany. The Seventh session of the Ad-hoc Working Group on further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP) and Fifth session of the Ad-hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA) began yesterday in Bonn, Germany. The talks are to take place from Sunday 29 March to Wednesday 8 April 2009 in Maritim Hotel. Matthias Machnig, State Secretary, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety of Germany, highlighted the need to switch to a full negotiating mode in Bonn and stressed that the agreement in Copenhagen should be guided not only by what is possible but also by what is necessary to address climate change. He also welcomed the US delegation and stated that the US is now “back in the game.”
The Maldives delegation participating in the talks is headed by Mr. Amjad Abdulla – Director General of the Ministry of Housing, Transport and Environment, accompanied by the ministry’s Environment Analyst, Mr. Ali Lishan and Ms. Shazra Abdul Sattar, First Secretary of the Maldives Permanent Mission to the UN in Geneva. Maldives is the lead coordinator on adaptation issues under the AWG LCA on behalf of G77/China and as the former chair of the LDCs, takes up responsibility and coordination of negotiations on thematic areas such as shared vision, mitigation, adaptation, finance and technology. |
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