UNFCCC Newsletter: Reporting the Durban outcomes
The Durban Climate Change Conference was a turning point in the history of the UN Convention on Climate Change. Governments drew up a blueprint for a universal agreement on how to address climate change where all will play their part to the best of their ability and all will reap the benefits of progress together. But governments, business and an informed citizenry, all motivated by an understanding of mutual self-interest, must work in tandem in pursuit of this common goal.
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Additional session of the Ad Hoc Working Groups

The Bureau has given the secretariat the green light to make arrangements for an additional sessional period in 2012 for:
• the Ad hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA),
• the Ad hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP);
• and the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP).

These sessions will be held from Thursday 30 August through Wednesday 5 September at the United Nations Conference Centre (UNCC) of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), in Bangkok, Thailand.

Due to space limitations at the UNCC NO delegation office space on a commercial basis is available. Parties and Observer organizations are being advised to make their own logistical arrangements outside the conference premises. For a similar reason, it will not be possible to hold side events and exhibits on this occasion.

The secretariat will be seeking funds to cover the costs of organising the additional sessional period and of full participation by eligible Parties, as these are not reflected in the approved budget.

Speech by Christiana Figueres at the Barbara Ward Lecture
9 March 2012
London, England
On occasion of delivering this year's Barbara Ward lecture organised by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), Christiana Figueres called on governments, business & civil society to power climate change solutions and moves toward sustainability through real action on the ground.
Speech (142 kB)

Clean rural electrification gets boost from Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism
6 March 2012
Bonn, Germany
Rural households in developing countries will soon be able to swap kerosene lamps and diesel generators for clean renewable energy thanks to the financial incentive provided by the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and an emissions baseline and monitoring methodology approved by the CDM Executive Board.
Press release (153 kB)