UNFCCC Newsletter: Bangkok informal session to prepare ground for key Doha deliverables
24 August 2012
A warm greeting to you as we approach our next meeting in Bangkok, being held thanks to the generosity of several donor governments. This informal meeting, involving the three working groups, is the last official opportunity that governments have to prepare the ground for COP 18 in Doha, which is expected to deliver several important steps forward. In particular, this includes preparing for a Doha Amendment to transition smoothly at the end of the year into the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol, and preparing to wrap up the work of the Ad hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action. Also, the Ad hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action can start its new work in Bangkok so that it can report progress in Doha.
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Governments meeting in Bonn embark on next steps following historic Durban Climate Change Conference
14 May 2012
Bonn, Germany
Building on the historic results of the Durban Climate Change Conference last year, governments on Monday embarked on the next essential steps required to curb global greenhouse gas emissions and help developing countries adapt to the inevitable effects of climate change.
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UNFCCC Newsletter: Governments to tackle new and urgent work at first negotiating session of 2012 in Bonn.
Extensive, intensive and urgent work awaits us at the Bonn Climate Change Conference that begins next week. It is the first formal opportunity for governments to take forward and build on the Durban outcomes, especially in view of meeting agreed deadlines for COP18 in Doha. There are a few urgent tasks that need completion as soon as possible, alongside new work that must be organized, structured, and launched without delay to bridge any gaps and give us a robust start towards an effective 2015 agreement. Above all, this May, can lay down solid groundwork on which to move decisively forward towards COP18, and set a positive tone of international cooperation on the very threshold of Rio+20.
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Informal Ministerial Meeting on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action
4-5 May
Bonn, Germany
Ministers and high-level officials from 32 countries, representing all UNFCCC negotiating groups, met in Bonn 4-5 May at the invitation of the COP 17 President for an Informal Ministerial Meeting on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action. The meeting was designed to prepare the ground for the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn (14 - 24 May) and for a strong outcome at COP18 in Doha.
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Statements
H. E. Ms. Maite Nkoana-Mashabane (133 kB)
President of COP 17/CMP 7

Ms. Christiana Figueres (109 kB)
Executive Secretary UNFCCC

Presentation
Dr. Alcamo (745 kB)
Chief Scientist, United Nations Environment Programme

Three applicants shortlisted as host of new UNFCCC Climate Technology Centre
23 April 2012
Bonn, Germany
The evaluation panel for selecting the host of the Climate Technology Centre (CTC) has proposed a short list ranking three applicants which have offered to host the new Climate Technology Centre of the UNFCCC. The three candidates, in descending order of ranking, are: a consortium led by the United Nations Environment Programme; the Global Environment Facility; and Det Norske Veritas AS.
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Speech by Christiana Figueres at the Global Philanthropy Forum
18 April 2012
Washington, DC, United States
In an address to the 2012 Global Philanthropy Forum's Annual Conference, Christiana Figueres called on philanthropists to fuel the existing momentum for investment in a sustainable, low-carbon future, in particular through two areas crucial to striding towards such a future: the need to create political space in which governments can act decisively, and the need to accelerate action on the ground.
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New loan scheme launched to boost CDM projects in least developed countries
20 April 2012
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
At the African Carbon Forum in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia this week, a new loan scheme was launched aimed at helping to support Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects in least developed countries (LDCs). Such projects help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and contribute to sustainable development and technology transfer, benefitting the economies of developing countries.
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Offers to host the Green Climate Fund now public
19 April 2012
The offers of the countries that are bidding to host the Green Climate Fund are now posted on the website of the GCF at GCFund.net. On Monday, the Interim Secretariat of the Green Climate Fund announced that six countries: Germany, Mexico, Namibia, Poland, Republic of Korea and Switzerland had submitted expressions of interest for hosting the Fund. The Green Climate Fund Board will conduct an open and transparent process for the selection of the host country and is expected to initiate next steps at its first meeting scheduled for 31 May to 2 June.
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Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism reaches milestone at 4,000 registered projects
13 April 2012
Bonn, Germany
The Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), the international market-based tool that incentivizes greenhouse gas emission reduction projects in developing countries, has registered its 4,000th project. The wind power project in Maharashtra state, India, expects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 21,807 tonnes a year; the equivalent of removing the emissions from 4,275 cars each year.
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Iran (Islamic Republic of) deposited its instrument of acceptance of the amendment to Annex B to the Kyoto Protocol
12 April 2012
At the second session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, held in Nairobi, Kenya from 6 to 17 November 2006, the Parties adopted an amendment to Annex B to the Protocol by decision 10/CMP.2, in accordance with Articles 20 and 21 of the Protocol. Iran (Islamic Republic of) deposited its instrument of acceptance of the amendment to Annex B to the Kyoto Protocol on 12 April 2012. The total number of States and regional economic integration organizations that have deposited instruments of acceptance: 28.
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COP 18 / CMP 8
The 18th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC and the 8th session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol will take place from Monday, 26 November to Friday, 7 December 2012 in Doha, Qatar.
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9 organizations express interest to be the host of UNFCCC's new Climate Technology Centre
19 March 2012
Bonn, Germany
A total of nine organizations have expressed their interest to be the host of the UNFCCC's new Climate Technology Centre (CTC). The CTC, along with its Network, is the implementing arm of the UNFCCC's Technology Mechanism, established at the UN Climate Change Conference in Cancun in 2010.
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Additional meeting time for the Ad Hoc Working Groups

The Bureau has given the secretariat the green light to make provisional arrangements for an additional sessional period in 2012 for work by:
• the Ad hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA),
• 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 the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP).

These sessions will be held from Thursday 30 August through Wednesday 5 September at the United Nations Conference Centre (UNCC) of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), in Bangkok, Thailand.

The nature and organization of work during the period will be decided by the bodies themselves.

Due to space limitations at the UNCC NO delegation office space on a commercial basis is available. Parties and Observer organizations are being advised to make their own logistical arrangements outside the conference premises. For a similar reason, it will not be possible to hold side events and exhibits on this occasion.

The secretariat will be seeking funds to cover the costs of organising the additional sessional period and of full participation by eligible Parties, as these are not reflected in the approved budget.

UNFCCC Newsletter: Reporting the Durban outcomes
The Durban Climate Change Conference was a turning point in the history of the UN Convention on Climate Change. Governments drew up a blueprint for a universal agreement on how to address climate change where all will play their part to the best of their ability and all will reap the benefits of progress together. But governments, business and an informed citizenry, all motivated by an understanding of mutual self-interest, must work in tandem in pursuit of this common goal.
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Speech by Christiana Figueres at the Barbara Ward Lecture
9 March 2012
London, England
On occasion of delivering this year's Barbara Ward lecture organised by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), Christiana Figueres called on governments, business & civil society to power climate change solutions and moves toward sustainability through real action on the ground.
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Clean rural electrification gets boost from Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism
6 March 2012
Bonn, Germany
Rural households in developing countries will soon be able to swap kerosene lamps and diesel generators for clean renewable energy thanks to the financial incentive provided by the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and an emissions baseline and monitoring methodology approved by the CDM Executive Board.
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Second meeting of the new Technology Mechanism's policy arm set to kick off in Bonn
14 February 2012
Bonn
The second meeting of the Technology Executive Committee (TEC), the policy arm of the UNFCCC's Technology Mechanism, is set to kick off in Bonn, Germany, on Wednesday. The Technology Mechanism is designed to help countries step up the impact, pace and quality of technology actions that are needed to address climate change and to ensure that these benefits reach developing countries.
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