August intersessional informal consultations 10-14 August 2009
Bonn, Germany
The Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP)
and the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA held
intersessional informal consultations from 10 to 14 August 2009. The meetings took place at the Hotel
Maritim in Bonn, Germany.
The AWG-LCA had before it a revised negotiating text, resulting from its sixth session in Bonn in
June, which is contained in document FCCC/AWGLCA/2009/INF.1
The AWG-KP had before it documentation to
facilitate negotiations among Parties, building upon the work of the AWG-KP at its eighth
session.
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer briefing the press on the last day of the informal
consultations in Bonn Download as Podcast
Briefing the media on the last day of the informal consultations in Bonn, UNFCCC Executive
Secretary Yvo de Boer said that while selective progress had been made to consolidate the
huge texts on the table, “at this rate, we will not make
it.”
Negotiations needed to move much faster to deliver strong outcomes on areas such as
adaptation, technology and building skills in
developing nations, he said. Governments needed to buckle down and concretely
identify how to achieve this.
He spoke of increasing momentum at a high political level for a strong result in
Copenhagen, including the G8 and Major Economies Forum. However, a concerted
response to climate change was essential to meet the concerns of developing countries.
Mr. de Boer stressed that "a climate deal in Copenhagen this
year isan unequivocal requirement to stop climate change from slipping
out of control.”
The Secretary-General's Climate Change Summit to be held in New York on 22
September presents an opportunity for world leaders to provide clear political
guidance.
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