Guide on Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples

3What were the key developments in the2008-2009 Climate Change Talks?• Since Bali, several meetings of AGW-LCA, AWG-KP and SBSTA/SBI wereheld. In 2008, these were the: Bangkok Climate Change Talks in Aprilin Bangkok, Thailand; Accra Climate Change Talks in August in Accra,Ghana; Bonn Climate Change Talks in June in Bonn, Germany; COP14in December in Poznan, Poland. In 2009, the meetings included thefollowing: 7th Session of the AWG-KP and 5th Session of the AWG-LCAin March; 30th Sessions of SBSTA/SBI, 6th Session of the AWG-LCA andthe 8th Session of the AWG-KP in June; and the Intersessional InformalConsultations of AWG-KP and the AWG-LCA in August 2009. The meetingstook place in Bonn, Germany. Several meetings are still scheduledleading to Copenhagen in December.• At the 5th Session of the AWGKP (AWG-KP5) in Bangkok in 2008, thedeveloping countries stated that “the lack of fulfillment by developedcountries of their commitments is aprimary cause of the deterioratingclimate situation and this impedesthe overall goal of the UNFCCC. Inthe face of this ‘implementationdeficit,’ or implementation gap, theUNFCCC’s post-Bali activities shouldfirstly focus on enhancing theimplementation of the developedcountries’ existing obligations,including providing finance andtechnology transfer to developingcountries.” 2• The Bonn Climate Talks (June2-13, 2008) included a sessionof a working group negotiatingthe GHG reduction for developedcountries after 2012. At a closingplenary session, the group adoptedconclusions on three main issues -emissions trading and project-basedmechanisms, land use and forestry,and “other issues,” some of whichturned out to be controversial. 3• At the REDD workshop held in Tokyo(June 25-27, 2008), “governmentsThe Bangkok ClimateChange Talks, 31March – 4 April 2008In the Climate Change Talksin Bangkok on 31 March – 4April 2008, the AWG-LCAand the AWG-KP met toflesh out the Bali Roadmap.The meeting agreed “...on a work programme thatstructures negotiations on along-term international climatechange agreement, set to beconcluded in Copenhagen bythe end of 2009.” Aside fromthis, it also “... sent a clearsignal that the use of marketbasedmechanisms, such asthe Kyoto Protocol’s CleanDevelopment Mechanism,should be continued andimproved as a way fordeveloped countries to meetemission reduction targetsand contribute towardssustainable development.”120 <strong>Guide</strong> on Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples