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What was it like being an observer for one day at the UN?

Angela Valenzuela October 28, 2015 0 Comments

by Angela Valenzuela. What was it like being an observer for a day in the last preparatory meeting for Paris COP21? Here there is a poem that I wrote after the last ADP session (Ad-hoc working group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action): The conviction for life and the breeze of change brought me to Bonn, to observe how love is lost, in the fast steps of this reunion. Diplomacy is...

Watching Bonn from Bar Harbor, ME

Kim October 23, 2015 0 Comments

by Morgan Heckerd Monday October 19, 2015 in Bonn, Germany was the first day of meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group of the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). In the earth morning G-77 and China paved the way for developing countries to make a stand against the Draft Paris Agreement which was released earlier this...

The way here and the way forward: negotiating a new climate agreement

Nathan Thanki March 14, 2014 23 Comments

by nathan thanki At the end of an unseasonably warm week in Bonn, the sun set on yet another round of UNFCCC (climate change) negotiations. The session, quieter than the end of year COP (Conference of the Parties) jamboree, has only dealt with one negotiating track—the "ADP." The ADP, or Ad-hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (there's a reason we use acronyms), is a...

Bonn Intersessionals Kick off

greeder May 14, 2012 0 Comments

~by Joe Perullo and Graham Reeder The sun is shining in the old capital of western Germany as the 36th session of the Subsidiary Bodies (Implementation and Scientific and Technical Advise) kick off on day 1 of the Bonn intersessionals. Intersessionals are smaller meetings than COPs, they are charged with getting the work done that the annual COPs agree to and preparing for the following year's...