United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Bangkok Climate Change Talks 2009
Ninth session of the AWG-KP and seventh session of the AWG-LCA 28 September - 9
October 2009
Bangkok, Thailand
The first part of the ninth session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I
Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP)
and the first part of the seventh session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action
under the Convention (AWG-LCA) are taking place at
the United Nations Conference Centre (UNCC) of the United
Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), Rajdamnern Nok Avenue,
Bangkok, 10200 Thailand. This is the penultimate negotiating session before COP 15 in Copenhagen in
December, at which an ambitious and effective international climate change deal is to be
clinched. More from the
Bangkok Climate Change Talks
Webcast during AWG-KP 9 & AWG-LCA 7
Selected meetings and press events will be webcast live and on-demand. Please check the Daily
Programme for the list of these meetings. The on-demand videos will be available shortly after the
end of the first live-session.
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Live: The live sessions will resume Thursday 1 October, 10.30 a.m. (GMT+7)
Summit on Climate Change, New York, 22 September 2009
On 22 September, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon convened a high-level Summit on
Climate Change, ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in
December. The summit brought together political leaders, including 100 Heads of State and
Government. This was the biggest ever gathering of political leaders to discuss climate
change.
2009 is a crucial year in the international effort to address climate change. A series of
UNFCCC meetings are taking place thoughout the year, designed to culminate in an ambitious
and effective international response to climate change, to be agreed at the United Nations
Climate Change Conference (COP 15) in Copenhagen, 7-18
December.
The Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol
(AWG-KP) and the Ad Hoc Working
Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA) will operate in full negotiating mode in 2009 to
advance work towards meeting their respective mandates. Important ongoing work under the
Convention will also be taken forward in 2009 by SBI and SBSTA.
Proposals by Parties for a protocol to the Convention and amendment to the Kyoto
Protocol
Five Parties have recently made proposals for a protocol under the Convention pursuant to
Article 17 of the Convention. The respective proposals by Parties are available here.
The secretariat has also received twelve proposals by Parties for amendment to the Kyoto
Protocol pursuant to Articles 20 and 21 of the Protocol. The respective proposals by Parties
are available here. Danish host country website
News
Opening remarks by Yvo de Boer at UN regional briefing
Bangkok, Thailand
29 September 2009
The Executive Secretary underlined the need for the UN to deliver as one and provide coherent
support on the ground to strengthen developing countries' ability to adapt to the
inevitable impacts of climate change and to steer their economies into a low-emissions
direction. De Boer called for improved inter-agency cooperation and coordination, and
applauded the initiative to organize the UN regional briefing as an example of increased
cooperation of organizations in the Asia Pacific.
Speech (127 kB)
Pace of UN Climate Change Negotiations Set to Pick Up in Bangkok as Result of New York
Climate Change Summit Bangkok, Thailand
28 September 2009
Government delegates meeting in Bangkok, Thailand embarked Monday on the penultimate round of
climate change negotiations ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in
December, at which a comprehensive international climate change deal is to be sealed. Thai
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva opened the two-week meeting.
Press release (127 kB)
French (129 kB)
Russian (185 kB)
Spanish (121 kB)
Statement by Yvo de Boer at the opening of the Bangkok Climate Change Talks
2009 Bangkok, Thailand
28 September 2009
Alluding to the call of world leaders at the recent UN Climate Change Summit in New York to
clinch a comprehensive, ambitious and fair international climate change deal in Copenhagen,
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer said that he believed the pace of the negotiations in
Bangkok was set to match an increasing pace of action at the highest political level.
Statement (85 kB)
Speech by Yvo de Boer to the New York Bar Association
New York, United States
23 September 2009
In an address to the New York Bar Association, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer
elaborated on the possible legal form of an agreed outcome in Copenhagen, and urged the United
States to be fully engaged in the climate change process. If both its domestic policy and
foreign policy on climate action are carefully developed in tandem to make them mutually
reinforcing, he said, the fear that international policy will lessen the US’s legislative
sovereignty could be alleviated.
Speech (263 kB)
Resumed ninth session of the AWG-KP and resumed seventh session of the
AWG-LCA 2-6 November 2009
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