16 November: COP 27 President's Update
Update on the Ministerial consultations
In keeping with long-standing UNFCCC tradition, the President invited pairs of Ministers to lead informal consultations on outstanding issues benefitting from political guidance. In choosing Ministers to undertake this important task, the President tried to ensure a balanced representation; not only among developed and developing countries but also gender balance.
The consultations by the Ministers will be carried out through informal meetings to allow for maximum flexibility. The Ministers may wish to issue informal documents under their own authority, should they feel this will help and they have been asked to work towards rapidly progressing on texts that reflect consensus, underlining that the mode and pace of work must push work forward.
Our common objective is to adopt consensus decisions and conclusions on Friday that will constitute the comprehensive, ambitious, and balanced outcome of the Sharm El-Sheikh conference.
Week 2 COP 27 / CMP 17 / CMA 4 Ministerial Consultations
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Issue
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Facilitator and secretariat support
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Update and Document
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Mitigation Work Programme
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Her Excellency Ms. Barbara Creecy, Minister of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries (South Africa), and his Excellency Mr. Dan Jørgensen Minister of Climate and Energy and Public Utilities (Denmark)
Supported by
Mr. Bernd Hackmann BHackmann@unfccc.int
Mr. Vintura Silva VSilva@unfccc.int
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19 Nov 2022
Ministerial consultations have concluded and the President has taken over:
Version: 19/11/2022 13:00 - Draft Text
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Global Goal on Adaptation
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Her Excellency Ms. Aminauth Shauna, Minister of Environment (Maldives) and Her Excellency Ms.Teresa Ribera, Vice-President and Minister of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge (Spain)
Supported by
Ms. Maryam Navi MNavi@unfccc.int
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19 Nov 2022
Ministerial consultations have concluded and the President has taken over:
Version 19/11/2022 13:00 Draft text
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Article 6 of the Paris Agreement and Other Related Mechanism Issues
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His Excellency Mr. Espen Barth Eide, Minister of Climate and the Environment (Norway), and Her Excellency Ms. Grace Fu, Minister for Sustainability and the Environment (Singapore)
Supported by
Mr. Perumal Arumugam PArumugam@unfccc.int
Mr. Phillip Eyre PEyre@unfccc.int
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19 Nov 2022
Ministerial consultations have concluded and L Documents are being prepared.
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Finance, in particular, the New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance
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His Excellency Mr. Bhupender Yadav, Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and Minister of Labour and Employment (India), and His Excellency Mr. Chris Bowen Minister for Industry, Energy and Emissions Reduction (Australia)
Supported by
Mr. Yolando Velasco YVelasco@unfccc.int
Ms. Johanna Lutterfelds JLutterfelds@unfccc.int
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19 Nov 2022
Ministerial consultations have concluded and the President has taken over:
Version: 19/11/2022 13:00 - Draft Text
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Her Excellency Ms. Maisa Rojas Minister for the Environment (Chile) and Her Excellency Ms. Jennifer Morgan State Secretary, Special Envoy for International Climate Action (Germany)
Supported by
Mr. Paul Desanker PDesanker@unfccc.int
Ms. Miwa Kato MKato@unfccc.int
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19 Nov 2022
Ministerial consultations have concluded and the President has taken over:
Version 19/11/2022 13:00 Draft Text
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Update on the President’s Consultations
The opening plenaries of COP 27, CMP 17, and CMA 4, on Sunday, 6 November 2022, adopted their agendas and smoothly launched the work of the Conference. In addition, they mandated the President to undertake consultations on a number of important issues and to report back to the plenaries on the results.
Presidency consultations
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Issue
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Facilitator and secretariat support
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Date / Time and Meeting Room
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Update and Document
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Presidency consultations on decision 1/CP.27, 1/CMP.17 and 1/CMA.4
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Wael Aboulmagd
Mohamed Nasr
Sergey Kononov
COP-presidency@unfccc.int
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18 Nov
(15:00 -17:00)
in Plenary Ramses (Parties and observers)
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19 November
The President released his proposal for the cover decisions early this afternoon.
Version 19/11/2022 13:00: Draft text by the Presidency
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Special needs and special circumstances of Africa
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Paul Watkinson
Ina Lambert ILambert@unfccc.int
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TBC
MR - TBC
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The second meeting of the Presidency informal consultations took place on 15 November. Parties continued sharing their views on the matter, including on the Party submissions circulated. The facilitator is consulting with the Presidency on the next steps.
Written inputs received:
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Implementation of decisions 1/CP.26, para 11 and 1/CMA.3, para 18 on adaptation finance
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Archie Young
Debapriya Roy
DRoy@unfccc.int
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TBC
MR - TBC
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The Presidency informal bilateral consultations with Parties were held on 12 and 14 November 2022. Parties shared their views and proposals on the item. Information on next steps will be made available shortly. |
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Equitable geographical representation in constituted bodies under the Convention
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Anne Rasmussen
Nattley Williams
nwilliams@unfccc.int
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15 Nov 2022
(16:00-17:00)
MR 13
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At the second informal consultations convened on Tuesday, 15 November 2022, a representative of Georgia provided further information on the proposal and their proposed draft decision for adoption by the COP. There were diverging views on this matter. Some Parties expressed sympathy for the proposal. Some Parties noted that arrangements have been agreed with regard to the Technology Executive Committee. Some Parties informed that they do not support the proposal or the draft decision proposed by Georgia and proposed that discussions be concluded immediately. The Chair informed that she would update the President that there was no consensus on a way forward. |
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Matters relating to Art.2.1(c) of the PA
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Archie Young
Padraig Oliver
POliver@unfccc.int
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TBC
MR - TBC
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The Presidency informal bilateral consultations with Parties were held on 12 and 14 November 2022. Parties shared their views and proposals on the item. Information on next steps will be made available shortly. |
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7th Review of the Financial Mechanism under the CMA
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Paul Watkinson
Yolando Velasco YVelasco@unfccc.int
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TBC |
During the informal consultations on 14 November, Parties were unable to reach an agreement on the inclusion of the proposed agenda item.
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Limiting global warming to 1.5C
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Wael Aboulmagd
Mohamed Nasr
Bernd Hackmann BHackmann@unfccc.int
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TBC
MR - TBC
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During the informal consultations on 14 November, Parties were unable to reach an agreement on the inclusion of the proposed agenda item.
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Presidency consultations under established agenda items
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Issue
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Facilitator and secretariat support
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Date / Time and Meeting Room
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Update and Document
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COP 27 item 2(b) Rules of Procedure
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Mirande Goubran
Gianluca Crispi
gcrispi@unfccc.int
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No further meetings planned
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Parties could not reach a conclusion on this matter in the meeting on 12 November. |
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COP 27 item 2(g) Dates and venues of future sessions
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Mirande Goubran
Karen Smith
ksmith@unfccc.int
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The facilitator has reached out to interested Groups and remains available for further bilateral consultations with any Parties or Groups who express interest. |
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COP 27 item 17(c) Decision-making in the UNFCCC process
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Mirande Goubran
Gianluca Crispi
gcrispi@unfccc.int
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No further meetings planned
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Agreement to forward the following procedural conclusions to the COP President: “On a proposal by the President, the COP agreed to continue consideration of this item at its twenty-eighth session.” |
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COP 27 item 7 and CMA 4 item 7 Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage associated with Climate Change Impacts
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Amr Essam
Miwa Kato mkato@unfccc.int
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No further meetings planned
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During the presidency’s informal consultations on 14 November Parties agreed to defer the consideration of the WIM governance to future sessions of the COP, and for the COP decision to endorse the CMA decision on the WIM following the example from Glasgow. This outcome will be reflected in the draft decision text on the WIM ExCom report and the Santiago Network. |
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CMP 6 Matters relating to Joint Implementation
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Wael Keshk
Perumal Arumugam PArumugam@unfccc.int
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CMP 11 Report on the high-level ministerial round table on increased ambition of Kyoto Protocol commitments.
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Amr Osama
Bernd Hackmann
bhackmann@unfccc.int
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No further meetings planned |
Parties could not reach a conclusion on this matter in the meeting on 12 November.
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