Bonn informal negotiations conclude: Negotiations Have Yet to Pick up Speed

Friday, 14 August 2009 12:40

A week-long informal negotiating session toward a new global response to climate change concluded in Bonn Friday August 14.

The consultations, attended by around 2400 participants, were part of a series of UNFCCC gatherings this year designed to culminate in an ambitious and effective international climate change deal in Copenhagen in December.

The Copenhagen outcome is to follow on the first phase of the Kyoto Protocol, which expires at the end of 2012.

“At this meeting, only limited progress was made, although governments did get down to some practicalities in the areas of adaptation, technology and capacity building,” said Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the UN Climate Change Secretariat. “So with only 15 days of negotiating time left before Copenhagen, negotiations will need to considerably pick up speed for the world to achieve a successful result at Copenhagen,” he added.

 Following the meeting in Bonn, work on the negotiating text will continue on 28 September in Bangkok at a two-week negotiating session.

Delegates will then assemble for five days of pre-Copenhagen negotiations in Barcelona 2 November.

A major opportunity for all Heads of State and Government of the world to provide clear political guidance to negotiators ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen will be The UN Secretary-General’s Climate Change Summit for world leaders 22 September in New York. The New York meeting will assemble Heads of State and Government  from all 192 Parties to the UNFCCC.


Further upcoming UNFCCC meetings

Bangkok Climate Change Negotiations 2009 9th session of the AWG-KP and 7th session of the AWG-LCA – Monday, 28 September to Friday, 9 October 2009 United Nations Conference Centre (UNCC) of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), Bangkok, Thailand. Full media facilities and numerous press conferences. No side events (due to space limitations).

Barcelona Climate Change Negotiations

Resumed Seventh session of the AWG-LCA and resumed Ninth session of the AWG-KP – 2 to 6 November 2009  Barcelona, Spain, Fira Barcelona. Full media facilities, around 100 side events.