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United Nations Climate Change Conference Cancun, Mexico

Overview Schedule

(Sixteenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 16)

Sixth session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 6)

Fifteenth session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP 15)

Thirteenth session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA 13))

Side Events

Scheduled

Time/room

Organizer

Title / theme

Monday,
29 Nov 2010

13:20—14:40
Mamey

Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
Ms. Jaime Webbe
jaime.webbe@cbd.int
+1 514 2878718

Launch of the Rio Conventions’ ecosystems and climate change pavilion: enhancing synergies
The side event will launch the Rio Conventions’ ecosystems and climate change pavilion at the COP in order to enhance awareness raising and information sharing about the latest science and practice on the linkages between biodiversity, climate change and combating desertification/land degradation.

Monday,
29 Nov 2010

13:20—14:40
Pitaya

Japan
Mr. Tomohiro Shimada
climate.focal.point@mofa.go.jp
+81 35 501849

Japan's policy and international cooperation on climate change
Cooperation on clean technology and innovation, supporting MRV in Asia-Pacific region, JICA's experiences learned from development cooperation, contribution to the forest and carbon monitoring by satellites, ALOS and GOSAT, database and analysis of gap between efforts and finance about REDD+.

Monday,
29 Nov 2010

13:20—14:40
Sandia

Norway
Ms. Anne Havnør
aig@mfa.no
+47 32 93222943

The missing link to success: Women in REDD
Event on how a gender approach and women’s empowerment are essential to a successful implementation of REDD initiatives.

Monday,
29 Nov 2010

13:20—14:40
Águila

WMO/UNEP Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Ms. Renate Christ
ipcc-sec@wmo.int
+41 227 30820

Wetlands, HWP and Soil N2O: IPCC response to request from SBSTA
In response to the invitation by SBSTA 32 the IPCC TFI held an expert meeting examining the current IPCC guidance on wetlands, HWP and Soil N2O, and to promote the emission factor database. This side event reports on that meetings and how we are developing the EFDB.

Monday,
29 Nov 2010

13:20—14:40
Jaguar

Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Ms. Kay Merce
kmerce@unfccc.int
+49 228 8151507

Experience and future directions for Kyoto's Joint Implementation mechanism: Question and answer session with the Joint Implementation Supervisory Committee (JISC)
Progress with JI is mixed but there are clear routes forward. The JISC has reviewed the experience so far with JI and sought ways to maintain and possibly improve the role of JI in the post-2012 world. The JISC will present this work (see its report to CMP6) and answer questions.

 (UNFCCC November 18, 2010)

 

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