United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

The United Nations Climate Change Conference, Poznań, Poland - COP 14
1-12 December 2008

The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poznań opened on Monday, 1 December. The Conference is a milestone on the road to success for the processes which were launched under the Bali Road Map.The meeting comes midway between COP 13 in Bali, which saw the launch of negotiations on strengthened international action on climate change, and COP 15 Copenhagen, at which the negotiations are set to conclude.

The Conference includes the 29th sessions of the Convention’s subsidiary bodies - SBSTA and SBI – as well as the 4th session of the AWG-LCA and the 2nd part of the 6th session of the AWG-KP. Almost eleven thousand participants are attending the Poznań meeting, which will both advance international cooperation on a future climate change regime and ensure progress on key issues.
Provisional agendas and further information

Live and On-demand webcast
For the duration of the conference, all official meetings and press conferences will be available live and on demand, with English or floor audio streams. On-demand files will be available shortly after the close of each meeting.
A selection of side-events will be available on demand in floor languages.

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News

	United Nations Climate Change Conference - Poznań, Poland Gets Underway with Calls for Urgent Need for Progress in Designing Copenhagen Deal 1 December 2008 Poznań, Poland The United Nations Climate Change Conference - Poznań, Poland kicked off Monday, 1 December. The two-week meeting, the fourteenth Conference of the 192 Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the fourth meeting of the 183 Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, is the halfway mark in the negotiations on an ambitious and effective international response to climate change. The deal is to be clinched in Copenhagen at the end of 2009 and will take effect in 2013, the year after the first phase of the Kyoto Protocol expires. Press release (168 kB)
	Statement by Yvo de Boer at the opening of the fourteenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 14), Poznań, 1 December 2008 1 December 2008 Poznań, Poland In an address at the opening of the Climate Change conference in Poznań, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer told delegates that they needed to make important decisions that would lay a solid foundation for an ambitious agreed outcome in Copenhagen, and urged them to focus on what united them rather than what divided them. Statement (36 kB)
	Latest edition of the UNFCCC newsletter 26 November 2008 Bonn, Germany In this final edition of the newsletter for 2008, the spotlight is on the Climate Change Conference in Poznań, Poland. Real progress needs to be made in the negotiations in Poznań in order to reach an ambitious international climate change deal in Copenhagen next year. Newsletter
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In Focus

Focus on Adaptation Today's UNFCCC press briefing in Poznań put the spotlight on adapting to the adverse effects of climate change. Adaptation is one of the main pillars of a strengthened climate change agreement.

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Fact sheet (291 kB)

REDD Web Platform

REDD Web Platform
A web platform aimed at sharing information on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) in developing countries was launched recently. Through this web portal, developing countries can better access information made available by Parties, relevant organizations and stakeholders in a number of related areas.
REDD Web Platform

Meetings

	Forty-fourth meeting of the CDM Executive Board - CDM EB 44 Poznań, Poland 26-28 November 2008 The forty-fourth meeting of the CDM Executive Board concluded on 28 November. More View On-demand webcast
	Thirteenth meeting of the Joint Implementation Supervisory Committee - JISC 13 Poznań, Poland 27-28 November 2008 The thirteenth meeting of the Joint Implementation Supervisory Committee (JISC) concluded on 28 November. The JISC considered a number of issues with regard to the operation of the Track 2 procedure it oversees, and related governance matters. More View On-demand webcast