Highlights from week one at the Lima climate talks – in pictures
This week delegates and activists began arriving in the Peruvian capital for the COP20 UN climate talks, where nations will negotiate a draft text on a climate deal to be agreed in Paris next year
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Workers set the finishing touches to the facilities for the UN climate summit which opened on Monday. The meeting hopes to finesse a draft text on a climate pact to be agreed by countries in Paris next year
Photograph: Paolo Aguilar/EPA
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Peruvian president Ollanta Humala (left) and his environment minister Manuel Pulgar-Vidal (centre), listen to UN climate chief Christiana Figueres, during the ceremony of the formal handover to the United Nations of the grounds in Lima. ‘The message on behalf of my country – climate change is a reality, we know it is the result of human impact,’ said Humala
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On the eve of the first day of COP20, the UN climate talks in Lima, a ‘vigil for the climate’ was held near the Pentagonito where the UN talks are to be held
Photograph: Sean Hawkey
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Figueres and Pulgar-Vidal spoke to the crowd at the vigil. At the opening of the summit, the Peruvian environment minister called for ambitious action on climate change
Photograph: Sean Hawkey
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A symbolic lighting of candles began a celebration that marked the end of one year of monthly fasting by religious and environmental groups around the world
Photograph: Sean Hawkey
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Delegates, observers and journalists stand in line for transportation to the conference – nearly 200 countries are attending the meeting, with ministers arriving next week to join their officials
Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/AP
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2007 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, the chair of the UN’s climate science panel, arrives at the meeting. His panel, the IPCC, told the world last month that it faces severe, widespread, and irreversible impacts from climate change if emissions are not cut
Photograph: Eitan Abramovich/AFP/Getty Images
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The climate summit is the biggest conference that the city of Lima, Peru’s capital, has ever hosted, said the organisers
Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/AP
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Indigenous participants sit in a hall at an opening plenary for the talks. Figueres spoke of the lessons that delegates could take from Peru’s indigenous people and culture, and their respect for nature
Photograph: Sean Hawkey
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Pulgar-Vidal, who will be president of the talks, assumes the gavel from last year’s president, Marcin Korolec of Poland, which hosted last year’s meeting in Warsaw
Photograph: IISD
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Country representatives listen to the opening remarks by Figueres during the opening ceremony
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Yeb Saño, a vocal critic of developed countries at the climate negotiations and former chief negotiator for the Philippines, addresses the summit in a video. He said he would be fasting during the conference because he cared ‘about the future of this world’ and to avert a ‘climate crisis’
Photograph: Sean Hawkey
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Delegates begin the third day of the Lima summit, where the issue of climate finance is high on the agenda, as well as efforts to reach the draft text of a future climate deal
Photograph: IISD
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Indians walk though a tunnel decorated with several murals. Developing countries have called on rich ones to move further and faster on emissions cuts, to bring them down to zero
Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/AP
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A demonstration inside the UN climate talks against the financing of coal-fired power stations in Japan
Photograph: Sean Hawkey
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Pulgar-Vidal (in the green tie) inaugurates the Indigenous Pavilion on the sidelines of the summit
Photograph: Eitan Abramovich/AFP/Getty Images
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Participants are seated in the garden of the venue of the summit. On Wednesday, the UN said that 2014 was on track to be the hottest year on record
Photograph: Mariana Bazo/Reuters
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A group of Ecuadorian environmental activists travelling to the UN Climate Change conference in neighbouring Peru were stopped and harassed at least six times by police who eventually seized their bus, members of the group have told the Guardian
Photograph: Martin Mejia/AP
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International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde (left) and Peru’s first lady Nadine Heredia (centre) with local inhabitants during a tour of their community of Ayacucho, southeast of Lima
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Youth pose for an action shot with a guest appearance by ‘Captain Planet’, the hero from an environmental 1990 cartoon show that is reportedly due to return as a live action film
Photograph: IISD
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Upbeat diplomats said the Lima talks – and the crunch Paris meeting in 2015 – were the best chance of a climate deal in a generation, due to recent high-profile commitment on carbon emissions by the US, China and the EU. The Lima summit runs until 12 December
Photograph: IISD
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