Lima Climate News Updates (December 2014)

About the Book

This is a collection of 33 News Updates prepared by the Third World Network for and during the recent United Nations Climate Change Talks – the twentieth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP20), the tenth session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 10), the forty-first sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI 41) and the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA 41), and the seventh part of the second session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP 2-7) – in Lima, Peru, from 1 to 12 December 2014.
 

Contents

1.    What to Expect at the Lima Climate Conference     
2.    UNFCCC COP Begins in Lima with Outline of Expectations     
3.    China to Remain in LMDC and General Developing Country Grouping     
4.    Parties Present Views at the COP and CMP Plenary     
5.    Parties Present Views at the SBSTA and SBI Opening Plenary   
6.    ADP: Developing Countries Demand Party-driven Text-based Negotiations
7.    SBSTA: No Agreement on Role of Markets; Mandate Questioned
8.    ADP: Crisis over Method of Work on Draft Decision Text
9.    SBSTA: REDD+ Safeguards Standoff, Support for Alternative Non-market-based Approaches
10.    CMP: Informal Consultations by COP Presidency on Way Forward for ‘Revisit Mechanism’
11.    ADP: Differentiation, Loss and Damage Key Sticking Points in Adaptation
12.    ADP: African Group Submits Proposal on ‘Finance’ as Basis for Negotiations
13.    ADP: Agreement Reached on Way Forward on Lima Draft Decision
14.    CMP: No Agreement on ‘Revisit Mechanism’ Contact Group to Increase Annex I Ambition
15.    COP: Proposals to Amend the UNFCCC
16.    ADP: Parties Divided over African Group’s Finance Proposal Versus Co-chairs’ Non-paper
17.    ADP: Revised Documents and Compilation of Parties’ Inputs Released
18.    SBSTA: Lima Session Closes with Outstanding Issues
19.    COP/CMP: Many Decisions Reached, Focus Grows on 2015 Agreement
20.    Developing Country Leaders Call for Urgency of Action and Comprehensive 2015 Agreement
21.    Finance Pledges Far from Adequate, Public Finance Key, Says South   
22.    ADP: Contact Group Suspended, G77 and China to Propose Way Forward   
23.    ADP: Parties to Negotiate New Draft Decision Text on Final Day   
24.    COP20 Concludes with Decision, After Day of Drama   
25.    SBSTA: No Resolution on Market Approaches Talks   
26.    ‘Common But Differentiated Responsibilities’ Principle Restored in COP 20 Decision   
27.    Comments on the Lima COP20 Decision on the Durban Platform   
28.    COP 20 Adopts Decision on Finance, Loss and Damage Mechanism and Other Issues   
29.    CMP 10 Grapples with Issues over Kyoto Protocol’s Second Commitment Period   
30.    ADP: Developing Countries Cite Reasons for Rejection of Co-chairs’ Text
31.    Impasse over Institutional Arrangements for Response Measures   
32.    Ministers Present Their Views on the 2015 Paris Agreement   
33.    Divisions on Safeguards Remain on REDD-plus; No Outcome in Lima   

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