UN Climate Change Conference June 2011
Bonn, Germany 6 - 17 June 2011

The 34th sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) and the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) took place from 6-16 June. The second part of the fourteenth session of the AWG-LCA and the second part of the sixteenth session of the AWG-KP took place from 7-17 June.

EU-UNFCCC Side event : capacity-building
Monday 13th of June

The Objective was to share information and experiences on approaches to build capacity to address climate change  as well as on the efforts being made by the EU in this regard.
The key messages of the event were :

• Enhanced capacities are essential for successful CC adaptation and mitigation action
• Capacity building is a cross-cutting and iterative issue by nature and needs to be integrated into all areas of cooperation
• The EU is supporting CB in developing countries through various programmes and actions at different levels

Program of the session : Panel Discussion
Introduction :
- Kaveh Zahedi, UNEP climate change coordinator
- Etienne Coyette, European Commission
Pannellist :
- Mr Ephraim Mwepya Shitima, technical Officer, Natural resources Economics, Zambia
- Ms Alma Jean, Sustainable development and Environment Officer, Ministry of Physical Development and Environment, St Lucia
- Ms Kate Dooley, REDD expert, FERN
- Mr Simon Billett, UNDP, Consultant, Climate Change Policy, Environment and Energy

During the Side-Event, member states and the Commission presented fiches presenting some support actions to capacity-building in climate change sector.

European Commission Fiche, Belgium Fiche, Czech Republic Fiche, Germany Fiche, Finland Fiche, Italy Fiche, Poland Fiche, Spain Fiche, Denmark Fiche.

COP 16 UNFCCC Conference

The United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC) will be held in Cancun, Mexico, from 29 November to 10 December 2010, bringing together the sixteenth Conference of the Parties (COP) and the sixth Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP), as well as the thirty-third sessions of both the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) and the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), and the fifteenth session of the AWG-KP and thirteenth session of the AWG-LCA to discuss future commitments for industrialized countries under the Kyoto Protocol.

In December 2005, a working group called the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP) was established to discuss on these topics.

"At its thirteenth session in Bali, the Conference of the Parties launched a comprehensive process to enable the full, effective and sustained implementation of the Convention through long-term cooperative action, now, up to and beyond 2010, in order to reach an agreed outcome and adopt a decision at its fifteenth session in Copenhagen. In Copenhagen, the COP decided to extend the mandate of the AWG-LCA to enable it to continue its work with a view to presenting the outcome to COP 16 for adoption." (UNFCCC website)

 

GCCA side event at COP16 : Building alliances for climate change adaptation

On the occasion of COP16, the European Commission, under the GCCA, will launch a side-event entitled "Building alliances for climate change adaptation" on december, 8th. The debate will introduce well known climate finance and policy authorities - including EU Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard, Ministerial representatives of fast start financing recipient countries and distinguished guests from NGOs/academia.

The discussions will focus on adaptation as a global priority and the links with urgent mitigation efforts, the role of fast start finance in the context of a long term perspective, and the opportunities and challenges for alliance building for climate change adaptation.