The UNFCCC’s Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement (APA) agreed on 23 May on the organization of work and went into a single contact group to begin an initial exchange of views on various issues on the   agenda that included a discussion on the features of the nationally determined contribu

Developing countries stressed the importance of maintaining balance and coherence among the various bodies in implementing the work arising from the decisions from Paris under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

The Co-chairs of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement (APA) under the UNFCCC, proposed to conduct work in a single contact group that will begin on Monday, 23 May, with an initial exchange of views among Parties on the substantive issues on its agenda.

After adopting the agenda of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement (APA) on 20 May, Parties exchanged preliminary views on the organization of work.

After four days of closed-door informal consultations, Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) adopted the agenda of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement (APA) on 20 May.

Several developing countries called for rules and standards to guide the participation of non-state actors in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), saying that a distinction has to be made with those with commercial interests.

The Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement (APA), a new body established by the twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21) to the UNFCCC, convened its first session in the morning of 17 May.

The current Bonn climate talks are taking place from 16 to 26 May.

London - Disagreements arose among Parties at the recent UNFCCC climate talks in Bonn, during discussions on a proposal to apply the existing clean development mechanism (CDM) modalities and procedures for afforestation / reforestation projects (A/R) to a new activity viz.

New Delhi – In describing the Paris Agreement (PA) as being “historic” and an important “milestone”, key developing countries stressed that the Agreement is to enhance the implementation of the UNFCCC and not to replace it.

Kuala Lumpur – Parties to the UNFCCC at the recently concluded climate talks in Bonn agreed to advance further work on the impact on developing countries, of the implementation of response measures (to address climate change) by developed countries.

Kuala Lumpur – Parties to the UNFCCC at the recently concluded climate talks in Bonn agreed to further consider the scope of the next periodic review of the long-term global goal under the Convention, and of overall progress towards achieving it, in May 2017 at the 46th sessions of the subsidiary

The first inter-sessional meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) after the adoption of the Paris Agreement at the 21st  Conference of the Parties (COP21) in Paris last year, opened here on 16 May.

Kuala Lumpur – Developing countries, led by the Group of 77 and China, reiterated that the work of the UNFCCC’s Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) “must enhance pre-2020 actions and support, which will lay a solid foundation for post-2020 implementation”.

The 44th session of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI 44) ended in a stormy closing plenary with procedural disputes over the adoption of the draft conclusion, pertaining to engagement of non-state actors with commercial interests.

At the open-ended informal consultations on the expectations for the 22nd session of the UNFCCC’s Conference of the Parties (COP 22) to be held in Marrakech, Morocco, in November this year, developing countries stressed the importance of implementing the pre-2020 commitments under the Convention.

Parties to the UNFCCC’s Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement (APA) began to have an initial exchange of views on 23 May on the guidance to be provided as regards the adaptation communication, including, inter alia, as a component of nationally determined contributions (NDCs) under

On the first day of the climate talks in Bonn which began on May 16 under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), disagreements have begun between developing and developed countries over the provisional agenda of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation as regards a matt