Bonn News Updates and Climate Briefings (June 2013)

About the Book

This is a collection of 30 News Updates and a Briefing Paper prepared by the Third World Network for and during the recent United Nations Climate Change Talks – the thirty-eighth sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI 38) and the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA 38), as well as the second part of the second session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP 2-2) – in Bonn, Germany, from 3 to 14 June 2013.


Contents

Bonn News Updates                             

1.    400 ppm: Climate Threshold Crossed, but No Solution in Sight!      
2.    Adoption of UNFCCC’s Subsidiary Body on Implementation Agenda Delayed      
3.    SBSTA Begins Work on Wide Range of Issues      
4.    UNFCCC Principles Must Guide Work of IMO and ICAO – Say Developing Countries
5.    Durban Platform: Parties Reiterate Positions
6.    SBI Chair Updates Plenary Briefly and Suspends Session Again
7.    Durban Platform: Concerns Expressed over Direction of Discussions
8.    REDD+: Discussions Begin on Non-market-based Approaches
9.    ADP: Developed Countries Can Close ‘Emissions Gap’ by Raising Pledges
10.    ADP: Parties Continue Exchange of Views on 2015 Agreement
11.    Response Measures: North-South Divergence Continues
12.    Review: Developed Countries Determined to Narrow Scope
13.    Work of SBI Delayed; Russia Explains Proposal
14.    Stormy Start over Developed Country Mitigation
15.    ADP: Agreement Must be Based on Equity, Applied to Science
16.    ADP: Parties Continue Exchange of Views on Addressing the Ambition Gap
17.    UNFCCC Body SBI in Crisis; Unable to Do Work
18.    Review Collapsed Carbon Markets Before Moving on New Markets, Say Developing Countries
19.    Addressing Fossil Fuels, Meeting Energy Needs
20.    ADP: Divergent Views on Enhancing Means of Implementation in New Agreement
21.    ADP: Call for Balanced Progress in Workstreams         
22.    ADP Meeting Suspended; Adopts Conclusions on Way Forward    
23.    SBI: Parties Express Disappointment and Call for Impasse to be Resolved    
24.    ADP: Call for Work to be More Focused and Party-driven    
25.    UNFCCC Scientific Body Decides on Key Issues    
26.    SBSTA: Parties Agree to Focus on Adaptation in Agriculture Outcome     
27.    SBSTA: Markets Discussion under Time Pressure to Move Ahead in Warsaw     
28.    SBSTA: Language on Drivers Puts Indigenous Livelihoods at Risk    
29.    REDD-plus Workshop Discusses Results-based Finance    
30.    REDD Workshop Highlights Need for Equitable Access and Scaled-up Finance    


CLIMATE BRIEFINGS FOR BONN

1    Some Key Issues for the June Climate Talks