1 April 2009: The UNFCCC Secretariat has issued a notification to parties and observer States regarding the upcoming climate talks that are scheduled to take place from 1-12 June 2009, in Bonn, Germany (ICA/PART/JUN/09).
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2 April 2009: The UNFCCC Secretariat has released the workshop report on economic and social consequences of response measures (FCCC/KP/AWGLCA/2009/CRP.1).
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2 April 2009: In a statement to the G20 Summit, which took place on 2 April 2009, in London, UK, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed the G20 leaders’ commitment to a $1.1 trillion package and their recognition of the interlinkages between tackling the economic crisis and addressing food security and climate change.
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31 March 2009: The UNFCCC Secretariat has released the workshop report on potential environmental, economic and social consequences, including spillover effects of tools, policies, measures and methodologies available to Annex I Parties (FCCC/KP/AWG/2009/CRP.2). The workshop was held in Bonn, Germany, on 30 March 2009, during the seventh session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP 7).
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31 March 2009: Yvo de Boer, UNFCCC Executive Secretary, addressed the opening plenary of the World Bank Group’s Energy Week by video link and welcomed the meeting’s theme, “Energy, Development and Climate Change,” noting the importance of addressing developing countries’ energy concerns.
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30 March 2009: The UNFCCC Secretariat has released the report by Harald
Dovland, Chair of the Workshop on issues relating to the scale of emission reductions to be achieved by Annex I Parties (FCCC/KP/AWG/2009/CRP.1), which was held in Bonn, Germany, on 27 Match 2009.
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29 March 2009: Addressing delegates at the opening of the seventh session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP 7) and the fifth meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA 5) taking place in Bonn, Germany, from 29 March-8 April 2009, Yvo de Boer, UNFCCC Executive Secretary, reminded them that they only have six weeks of “real negotiating time” over the next eight months to reach an ambitious agreement in Copenhagen.
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30 March 2009: The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has released a brief titled “Agriculture and Climate Change: An Agenda for Negotiation in Copenhagen.”
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30 March 2009: The seventh session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP 7) and the fifth meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA 5) opened on 29 March 2009, in Bonn, Germany, with a welcoming ceremony followed by the opening sessions of the two Working Groups.
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30 March 2009: The UNFCCC Secretariat has released an addendum (FCCC/KP/AWG/2009/MISC.1/ADD.2) to document FCCC/KP/AWG/2009/MISC.1 on consideration of the scale of emission reductions to be achieved by Annex I Parties and of other relevant issues arising from the implementation of the work programme of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol.
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