The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poznań will be a milestone on the road to success for the processes which were launched under the Bali Road Map. The meeting comes midway between COP 13 in Bali, which saw the launch of negotiations on strengthened international action on climate change, and COP 15 Copenhagen, at which the negotiations are set to conclude.

The conference will include the 29th sessions of the Convention’s 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. The Poznań meeting, which is expected to draw around eight thousand participants, will both advance international cooperation on a future climate change regime and ensure progress on key issues.
Provisional agendas and further information

At the Climate Change Conference in Bali, Parties to the UNFCCC decided to launch formal negotiations on a strengthened international deal on climate change. These negotiations are set to be concluded by the end of 2009 at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. To conduct the process, a subsidiary body under the Convention was set up, called the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA).
AWG-LCA documents and submissions

To discuss future commitments for industrialized countries under the Kyoto Protocol, the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol established a working group in December 2005 called the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP). The AWG-KP is also set to complete its work by the end of 2009.
AWG-KP documents and submissions

Upcoming UNFCCC Press Conferences:
Virtual press briefing on the investment and financial flows required to finance the global response to climate change
14 November 2008, UNFCCC Headquarters, Bonn, Germany
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Press briefing on Key Greenhouse Gas Data and expected outcomes of Poznań
17 November 2008, UNFCCC Headquarters, Bonn, Germany
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Meeting of the Expert Group on Technology Transfer (EGTT)
Dublin, Ireland
21-23 October 2008
At this fourth and final meeting for this year, the Group discussed several key issues which will serve as input to the Ad hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention.
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Pre-sessional workshop on the second review of the Kyoto Protocol pursuant to its Article 9
Athens, Greece
22-23 October 2008
This pre-sessional workshop was held in preparation for the second review of the Kyoto Protocol pursuant to its Article 9, which will take place at Poznań in December. The workshop achieved its main objective, which was to get a good understanding of positions of Parties and an assessment of what can be achieved in Poznan and how. Central to the exchange of views were the issues of: extending the share of proceeds to Joint Implementation and Emissions Trading to meet the costs of adaptation; improving the mechanisms; and facilitating participation in the Clean Development Mechanism.
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Meeting on experiences with performance indicators for monitoring and evaluation of capacity-building
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
6-7 November 2008
The meeting will focus on experiences on using performance indicators at the national level.
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Workshop on Investment and Financial Flows to address Climate Change - An Update
Bonn, Germany
10-11 November 2008
The UNFCCC secretariat is about to publish an update of its publication entitled "Investment and Financial Flows to Address Climate Change." The objective of the workshop is to share the key findings of the update and to receive feedback, identify gaps and prioritize needs for further work on investment and financial flows to address climate change that can be undertaken by interested organizations.
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