This section provides regular updates on developments following the closure of the ADP, SBI and SBSTA, including in relation to items that have been transferred to the COP/CMP, as well as consultations led by Heads of Delegation, Presidency informal stock-taking meetings and other significant developments in the second part of the negotiations.
Paris Agreement adopted
(FCCC/CP/2015/L.9/Rev.1)
Information provided in accordance with paragraph 105 of the decision related to entry into force (Article 21) of the Paris Agreement.
Progress on text
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Comité de Paris
Mandate and Chairing
Open-ended group of legal and linguistic experts
Information for Observers
Meetings of the Comité de Paris
-Comité de Paris, 7th meeting, 12 December
-Comité de Paris, 6th meeting, 12 December
-Comité de Paris, 5th meeting, 10 December
-Comité de Paris, 4th meeting, 9 December
-Comité de Paris, 3rd meeting, 9 December
-Comité de Paris, 2nd meeting, 8 December
-Comité de Paris, 1st meeting, 7 December
Informal Consultations
List of issues and facilitators
Guidance from the President to facilitators on the conduct of informal consultations
Specific mandates to facilitators for their informal consultations on key issues
Scheduling and organizational arrangements
-Tuesday, 8 December
-Monday, 7 December
Statements by the COP Presidency
President’s statement at 5th plenary of COP 21 (5 December 2015) on the Organization of Work in the second week
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Mandate and Chairing
As decided by the COP at its 5th plenary meeting on 5 December 2015, the President convened informal consultations by means of an open-ended single-setting group to be known as the Comité de Paris. The objective of these consultations was to make progress and facilitate compromise on the draft Paris Outcome and package of decisions transmitted to the COP by ADP.
The committee is chaired by the COP President, who could be replaced by Ambassador Laurence Tubiana, as necessary.
Open-ended group of legal and linguistic experts
At its 5th meeting on 5 December 2015 the COP, following standard United Nations practice, established an open-ended group of legal and linguistic experts to undertake a technical review of the text of the draft agreement and present the results of the review to the Comité de Paris by close of business on Thursday, 10 December 2015, for the latter’s consideration.
After informal consultations, the COP President appointed as Co-Chairs of the group Ms. Jimena Nieto Carrasco (Colombia) and Mr. Peter Horne (Australia). Coordinators of regional groups and of the small-island developing States were invited to submit nominations for the core membership of the group, consisting of 11 experts, by close of business on Monday, 7 December 2015. More details on the group’s mandate and composition are provided in the attached Notification.
Information for Observers
Comité de Paris meetings are open to Parties and Observers, unless the committee decides otherwise. Open meetings will be televised in designated viewing rooms and webcast.
Due to space constrains, a number of access tickets will be distributed to representatives of observer organizations so that they can attend the meetings.
UN organizations: please collect an envelope per organization from the information desk.
IGO: a limited number of tickets are available. Please request by email cool@unfccc.int and collect from the Observer Organizations Liaison team at Conference Affairs Services in Hall 2.
NGO: the tickets are distributed through the NGO Constituency Focal Points. NGOs that belong to constituencies are kindly invited to contact the following focal points: List of focal points
For details, contact the Observer Organization Liaison Office of the secretariat.
Meetings of the Comité de Paris
Comité de Paris, 7th meeting, 12 December
The 7th meeting of the Comité de Paris was convened by COP President Laurent Fabius at 19:00 on 12 December to consider thedraft Paris Agreement presented earlier to the Parties (see 6th meeting below). The committee heard the report of the group of legal and linguistic experts, which recommended some adjustments in the text of the draft agreement and its language versions. Subsequently, the committee consented to the President transmitting the draft agreement to the COP for adoption, with a number of technical corrections orally presented by the secretariat.
The COP convened immediately after completion of the Comité de Paris meeting and adopted the Paris Agreement
Comité de Paris, 6th meeting, 12 December
Following the informal consultations undertaken by the COP President on Thursday, 10 December, at the "Indaba of Solutions", the President conducted intensive consultations on 11 December with groups and Parties on outstanding issues. The President convened the 6th meeting of the Comité de Paris at 11.30 a.m. on Saturday, 12
December where he presented to the Parties the draft Paris Agreement. He invited the Parties to study the Agreement and reconvene to discuss it later in the day.
Comité de Paris, 5th meeting, 10 December
At the fifth meeting of the Comité de Paris on 10 December, from 21:00 to 21:30, the COP President presented to Parties version 2 of the Draft Paris Outcome. This new version reflects inputs from Parties received in the course of the open-ended informal consultations held during the previous night.
The President announced that he intended to give Parties sufficient time to review the revised version and consult among themselves. Starting from 11.30 pm, he would convene another round of open-ended informal consultations entitled “Indaba of Solutions” to resolveoutstanding issues and arrive at a final version of the Draft Paris Outcome.
Where in the course of the Indaba there are persistent differences on a certain issue, heads of delegation of interested Parties would be asked to seek solutions in a more focused setting and report back to the Indaba within 30-45 minutes. On the basis of the progress achieved in the course of these consultations on the text as a whole, the President would present on the following day, 11 December, tothe Comité de Paris his proposal for a final version of the text.
The President also announced that all members of the open-ended group of legal and linguistic experts had been designated and that he group had taken up work on articles 12, 13, 14, 16, 21, 23, 25 and 26 of the draft agreement.
Comité de Paris, 4th meeting, 9 December
The Comité de Paris held its fourth meeting on 9 December from 20:00 to 23:30. Numerous Parties took the floor to provide their initial reactions to the Draft Paris Outcome made available earlier in the day. As next step, the President Invited Parties to informal consultations, as follows:
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tarting as of midnight, open-ended Indaba-type consultations on Differentiation, Support and Ambition, chaired initially by Minister Fabius, and later by Ambassador Tubiana (meeting room La Rhône; overflow rooms Le Rhin, La Garonne)
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In parallel, open-ended informal consultations on Loss and Damage (midnight - 1 am); Cooperative approaches and mechanisms (1-2 am) ; Forests (2-3 am) and the Preamble (3-4 am); these will involve the corresponding facilitating ministers and will be coordinated by Minister Manuel Pulgar Vidal, President of COP 20 (meeting room Le Maroni).
The consultations are open to Parties only. The President announced his intention to issue a new revised text in the afternoon of Thursday, 10 December.
The President also proposed that the Comité de Paris pass on to the Open-ended Group of Legal and Linguistic Experts a limited number of “clean” articles of the Draft Paris Outcome for the legal and linguistic review, namely draft articles 12 to 26, with the exception of draft articles 15, 18 and 19.
Comité de Paris, 3rd meeting, 9 December
The Comité de Paris held its third meeting on 9 December from 15:00 to 15:30 hrs. At the meeting, the COP President, Minister Laurent Fabius, presented to the delegates a Draft Paris Outcome based on the text transmitted to the COP by ADP on the previous Saturday and incorporating drafting guidance by the facilitating ministers and advice from the ADP co-facilitators. The President encouraged delegates to study the text closely and consult within their groups. The Comité de Paris would meet again at 20:00 hrs to hear the reactions of delegations to the new text. At that meeting the President would make proposals regarding the method of work.
The President asked the delegates to prepare for work overnight and during the following day, towards the elaboration and eventual adoption of the Paris Agreement within the foreseen time frame.
Comité de Paris, 2nd meeting, 8 December
The Comité de Paris held its second meeting on 8 December from 7.00-8.00 p.m. At the meeting, the COP President, Minister Laurent Fabius, gave the floor to the facilitating ministers to report on the results of the consultations they held during the day. These reports are attached below.
The President also used this occasion to announce his plan for the way forward, which was met with broad support by Parties. His remarks related to the next steps in the process are attached below.
Comité de Paris, 1st meeting, 7 December
The Comité de Paris held its first meeting on 7 December from 7.00-8.30 p.m. At the meeting the COP President, Minister Laurent Fabius, announced that he had requested ministers to assist him by consulting on additional issues, namely Adaptation and Loss & Damage, Cooperative Mechanisms and Forests (see below complete table of facilitating ministers as announced at this meeting and the COP plenary on 5 December).
The President further announced that he would seek assistance to undertake consultations on Response Measures. The names of ministers will be announced.
At the same meeting, ministers who had been requested at the COP plenary meeting on Sunday, 5 December, to undertake consultations on the four topics of Support/Means of Implementation; Ambition; Differentiation and Pre-2020 Action, respectively, presented their reports on consultations undertaken so far.
The next Comité de Paris meeting will take place on Tuesday, 8 December, 7.00-8.00 pm.
List of issues and facilitators
Targeted and time bound informal consultations are being conducted at the request of the President as per below. The outcomes of these consultations are reported back to Comité de Paris.
Issue
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Facilitators
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Support: means of implementation (finance, technology, capacity building)
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H.E. Mr. Franck Emmanuel Issoze-Ngondet, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Gabon
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H.E. Mr. Jochen Flasbarth, State Secretary, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety of Germany
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Differentiation, in particular with regard to mitigation, finance, transparency
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H.E. Ms. Izabella Monica Vieira Teixeira, Minister of the Environment of Brazil
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H.E. Mr. Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Singapore
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Ambition, including long-term goals and periodic review
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H.E. Mr. James Fletcher, Minister of Public Service, Sustainable Development, Energy, Science and Technology of St. Lucia
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H.E. Ms. Tine Sundtoft, Minister of Climate and Environment of Norway
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Acceleration of pre-2020 Action, Workstream 2 excluding pre-2020 finance
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H.E. Mr. Pa Jarju Ousman, Minister of Environment, Climate Change, Water, Forestry and Wildlife of the Gambia
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H.E. Ms. Amber Rudd, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Department of Energy and Climate Change of United Kingdom
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Adaptation and loss & damage
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H.E. Mr. René Orellana, Minister of Planning for Development of Bolivia
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H.E. Ms. Asa Romson, Minister for Climate and the Environment of Sweden
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Preamble
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Forests
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H.E. Mr. Daniel Vicente Ortega Pacheco, Minister of Environment of Ecuador
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H.E. Ms. Doris Leuthard, Federal Councelor, Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications of Switzerland
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H.E. Mr. Henri DJombo, Minister for Forestry, Environment and Sustainable Development, Republic of Congo
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Cooperative approaches and mechanisms
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H.E. Ms. Catherine McKenna, Minister of Environment and Climate Change of Canada
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H.E. Raymond Tshibanda N'Tungamulongo, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic Republic of Congo
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Response measures
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H.E. Jan Szyszko, Minister of Environment of the Republic of Poland
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H.E. Mr. Khaled Mohamed Fahmy Abdelall, Minister of State For Environmental Affairs of Egypt
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Facilitating implementation and compliance
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Guidance from the President to facilitators on the conduct of informal consultations
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By Tuesday night, facilitators are asked to present their conclusions, based on their consultations, on how best to frame the emerging solutions in the form of initial drafting guidance;
Specific mandates to facilitators for their informal consultations on key issues
Issue
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Mandate
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Support: means of implementation (finance, technology, capacity building)
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Post-2020 Finance (Art 6);
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Pre-2020 Finance (para 122);
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Technology development and transfer (Art 7);
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Capacity-building (Art 8).
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Differentiation, in particular with regard to mitigation, finance, transparency
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Reflecting the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities, in light of different national circumstances in a general manner (preamble, Article 2, Article 2bis);
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Reflecting differentiation in mitigation (Article 3.3);
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Reflecting differentiation in the transparency framework (Article 9.1);
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Reflecting differentiation in finance (Article 6.2, 6.4, 6.10 and 6.12).
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Ambition, including long-term goals and periodic review
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Purpose (Art 2; 2013-2015 Review);
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Long term goals (Art. 4.1, 3.1, 6.1);
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Progression in ambition (Art 2 bis.2, Art 3.6);
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Stocktake (Art 10).
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Acceleration of pre-2020 Action, Workstream 2 excluding pre-2020 finance
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Scheduling and organizational arrangements
Tuesday, 8 December
Minister-led informal consultations under the Comité de Paris
10.00-11.00
and 16.30-17.30
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Support: means of implementation (finance, technology, capacity building)
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Le Maroni
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10.00-11.30
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Acceleration of pre-2020 action (Workstream 2, excluding pre-2020 Finance)
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Meeting
Room 9
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11.30-13.00
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Adaptation, Loss and Damage
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Le Rhone
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13.30-14.30
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Implementation, Compilance
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Meeting
Room 20
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15.00-17.00
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Differentiation, in particular with regard to mitigation, finance and transparency
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Meeting
Room 7
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15.30-17.00
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Cooperative Approaches and Mechanisms
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Meeting
Room 1
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15:00-17.00
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Forests
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Meeting
Room 27
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Bilaterals conducted by facilitators
08.00-21.00
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Ambition, including long-term goals and periodic review
Contact: Ms. Livia Hollins
LHollins@unfccc.int
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08.00-24.00
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Differentiation, in particular with regard to mitigation, finance, and transparency
Contact: Ms. Naziha Degroote
NDegroote@unfccc.int
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09.00-19.00
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Acceleration of pre-2020 action (Workstream 2, excluding pre-2020 Finance)
Contact: Ms. Inkar Kadyrzhanova
IKadyrzhanova@unfccc.int
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09.00-19.00
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Adaptation, Loss and Damage
Contact: Ms. Annett Moehner
AMoehner@unfccc.int
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11.00-16.30
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Support: means of implementation (finance, technology, capacity building)
Contact: Mr. Hyunwoo Kim
HKim@unfccc.int
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13.00-15.00
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Cooperative approaches and mechanisms
Contact: Mr. Andrew Howard
AHoward@unfccc.int  Â
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14.30-19.00
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Facilitating, implementation and compliance
Contact: Ms. Maria Socorro Manguiat
MManguiat@unfccc.int
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Meetings to be announced (see CCTV)
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Preamble
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Response Measures
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Monday, 7 December
The schedule and venue of informal consultations for 7 December is as follows:
Issues
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Details
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Support: means of implementation (finance, technology, capacity building
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Two meetings with all Parties to be held from 10.30-12.00 and 16.00-17.30 in Le Maroni
Bilaterals from 12.00-16.00
Contact: Mr. Hyunwoo Kim
HKim@unfccc.int
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Differentiation, in particular with regard to mitigation, finance, transparency
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Bilaterals from 11.00-13.00 and 15.00-17.00
Contact: Ms. Naziha Degroote
NDegroote@unfccc.int
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Ambition, including long-term goals and periodic review
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Bilaterals from 10.30-14.30
Contact: Ms. Livia Hollins
LHollins@unfccc.int
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Acceleration of pre-2020 Action, Workstream 2 excluding pre-2020 finance
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Bilaterals from 10.30-14.30
Contact: Ms. Inkar Kadyrzhanova
IKadyrzhanova@unfccc.int
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Statements by the COP Presidency
Presidents statement at 5th plenary of COP 21 (5 December 2015) on the Organization of Work in the second week
English, French
Updated: 12/12/2015 - 23:12