First round of formal UN climate change negotiations to take place in April in Bonn, Germany

The next round of AWG-KP and AWG-LCA meetings will take place in Bonn from Friday, 9 April through Sunday, 11 April 2010. The AWG-KP and AWG-LCA meetings are to be preceded by preparatory regional group meetings on 8 April. Further information will be made available soon.

Information to Parties pertaining to the forthcoming AWG sessions. Information note (317 kB)  

Overview schedule (109 kB)

NEW! The provisional agenda and annotations and the scenario note on the ninth session of the AWG-LCA are now available as documents FCCC/AWGLCA/2010/1 and FCCC/AWGLCA/2010/2.

Notifications

Notification to Parties (207 kB)

Notification to UN bodies and specialized agencies (203 kB)

Notification to NGOs and IGOs (3626 kB) Information to Parties pertaining to the nomination of officers for the AWG-KP (220 kB)

COP 15 and CMP 5
The United Nations Climate Change Conference, held in Copenhagen, concluded on Saturday, 19 December 2009. All decisions adopted by the Conference, as well as the Copenhagen Accord, can be found here.

Information provided by Parties to the Convention relating to the Copenhagen Accord

AWG-KP 10
Report of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP).
More information on the work of the AWG-KP can be found here.

AWG-LCA 8
Report of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA)

A compilation of the work undertaken by the COP at its fifteenth session on the basis of the report of the AWG-LCA is available here.
More information on the work of the AWG-LCA can be found here.

Speech by Yvo de Boer at 8th Informal Meeting on Further Actions against Climate Change
Tokyo, Japan
2 March 2010
Addressing the meeting, Yvo de Boer stressed the need for the climate change negotiations to get off to a good start following Copenhagen, and for confidence in the process to be rebuilt. The priority for 2010, he said, will be to reach consensus on as many of the outstanding issues as possible to allow for the adoption of an agreed outcome in Mexico.
Speech (157 kB)

Latest edition UNFCCC Newsletter
2 March 2010
Bonn, Germany
This first edition of the newsletter this year includes updates on the issues discussed at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen and looks ahead at upcoming meetings and events.
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Executive Secretary leaves UNFCCC secretariat
18 February 2010
Bonn, Germany
Mr. Yvo de Boer has announced today that he will resign his position as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change as of 1 July 2010. Mr. de Boer will be joining the consultancy group KPMG as Global Adviser on Climate and Sustainability, as well as working with a number of universities.
Press release (167 kB)

Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism - CDM-EB 53
22-26 March 2010
Bonn, Germany
The proposed agenda and its annotations for the Fifty-third meeting fo the CDM Executive Board (CDM-EB 53) are now available online.
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