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United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
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The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poznań, Poland - COP 14
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The 14th session of the Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Convention (COP 14)
will be held in conjunction with the 4th Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of
the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 4) in Poznan, Poland, from 1 to 12 December 2008. The
conference will also include the 29th sessions of the Convention’s two subsidiary bodies
- SBSTA and SBI – as well as the 4th session of the AWG-LCA and the 2nd part of the 6th
session of the AWG-KP.
Provisional agendas and further
information
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News
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UNFCCC Executive Secretary: The agreed outcome in Copenhagen 2009 needs to be ambitious
on all fronts of climate change abatement Pohnpei, Micronesia
12 September 2008
Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC, addressed Heads of State and Government, as
well as Ministers on the occasion of the Ministerial Segment of the 19th meeting of the
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme in Pohnpei, Micronesia. He stressed
that Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have much to gain under a strong agreed outcome in
Copenhagen 2009. This includes both mitigation support and - crucially, increased funding for
adaptation. Mr. de Boer called on SIDS to be more vocal regarding their needs under an agreed
outcome in Copenhagen and to bring elaborated proposals for solutions to the
negotiations.
Speech (117 kB)
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Lecture by Yvo de Boer, “The need for global low-emissions economic
development” at Korea Green Foundation
Seoul, Republic of Korea
9 September 2008
The lecture provides an overview of climate change science and the state-of-play of the
negotiations under the Bali Road Map. The central theme of the lecture focuses on the need for
Copenhagen 2009 to ring in a global low-emissions economic development plan.
Summary (115 kB)
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First all-Africa Carbon Forum boosts carbon market interest, activity and funding on
the continent Dakar, Senegal
3-5 September 2008
Africa’s carbon market community wrapped up three days of intense networking and
deal-making, keener and better able to take part in the fast-growing global carbon market.
The Africa Carbon Forum, an initiative of the Nairobi Framework, attracted more than 600
participants from 60 countries, including 40 project developers and 36 designated national
authorities.
Speech by UNFCCC Executive Secretary (219 kB)
Press release (219 kB)
fr (152 kB)
Press release (135 kB) (issued 4 September)
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Press release (152 kB) (issued 5 September)
Website
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Previous News and
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Meetings
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In Focus
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International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) launches new aviation carbon
calculator
The ICAO has launched a new carbon calculator for the aviation industry. It calculates carbon
dioxide only, and does not include other greenhouse gases, since the scientific community has
not yet agreed on how to calculate multipliers. The calculator has been approved by the
Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection, and was developed with input from aviation
experts, manufacturers and airlines.
ICAO carbon
calculator
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Latest Documents
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FCCC/SBSTA/2008/12
Summary of the results of the implementation of the Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change for the period up to the twenty-eighth session of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice. Note by the secretariat.
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FCCC/SBSTA/2008/8
Report on the workshop on the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Note by the secretariat.
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FCCC/SBSTA/2008/9
Report on the workshop on climate modelling, scenarios and downscaling under the Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change. Note by the secretariat.
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