Social Media at Bonn Climate Conference
29 May 2015
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Along with live webcast, social media community tools such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr enable virtual participation in the Bonn UN climate change conference 1 - 11 June. Information on live webcasts of each respective day will be posted on the main meetings page

The main Twitter hashtag for the event is #SB42.

Conference participants can take pictures of themselves next to a giant hashtag at the entrance of the conference venue.

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Other key hashtags used by the secretariat during the conference are:

#COP21 - to describe the COP 21 conference in Paris in December
#ADP2015
- to describe the negotiation of the Paris 2015 global agreement and work to raise immediate climate ambition
#Paris2015 - to describe the main political outcome of COP 21, the Paris 2015 climate agreement
#LPAA - to be used for events relating to the Lima to Paris Action Agenda
#Article6 - to be used during the dialogue on education, training and international cooperation 2 & 3 June
#CapacityBuilding - to be used in discussions on capacity building
#WWViews - for the global consulation on climate and energy that will take place word-wide 6 June, with the results presented in Bonn 10 June.
#action2015 - to describe topics that relate to both climate change and the broader sustainability agenda

Apps, Platforms and Accounts

An updated UNFCCC Iphone Negotiator app collects all the information in one place, including social media and webcast.

We encourage Twitter followers to sign up to the Periscope app, as some events may be live-streamed by the secretariat using this tool.

See here for an overview of the virtual participation tools at the Bonn meeting and for a feed of tweets relating to it.

Here the full list of our social media accounts:

Twitter

UNFCCC in English

UNFCCC in French

UNFCCC in Spanish

Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres

Momentum for Change

UN Carbon Mechanisms

 

Facebook

UNFCCC

Momentum for Change

Adaptation Exchange

UN Carbon Mechanisms

 

Other Channels

UNFCCC on LinkedIn

UNFCCC on Flickr

UNFCCC on YouTube

Momentum for Change on Vimeo

Momentum for Change on SoundCloud

UNFCCC on Google+