Bonn Climate Change Talks - June 2009

Bonn Climate Change Talks - June 2009

 


Delegates convened in Bonn, Germany, from 1-12 June 2009 to participate in four meetings as part of ongoing negotiations under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol. The Convention’s Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) and the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) held their 30th sessions. 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 Protocol (AWG-KP 8) also took place. Over 3,500 participants attended the meetings, representing governments, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, academia, the private sector and the media.
The main focus in Bonn was to enhance international climate change cooperation, including in the post-2012 period when the first commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol expires. The long-term issues were considered by the AWG-LCA and AWG-KP, which are both scheduled to conclude their work by the fifteenth Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December 2009. (...)

 

UNFCCC Press Release:

http://unfccc.int/files/press/news_room/press_releases_and_advisories/application/pdf/091206_closing_pr_sb30.pdf

 

The Summary and the Full Report of the Meetings:

http://www.iisd.ca/vol12/enb12421e.html


Daily Web Coverage:

http://www.iisd.ca/climate/sb30/

 

 

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