The sixteenth meeting of the 'Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice' and the sixteenth meeting of the 'subsidiary body for implementation' of the UNFCCC takes place on June 5 -14, Hotel Maritim, Bonn, Germany to continue work on the detail of the Marrakech Accords agreed in November 2001 at COP7.

News

ENB Summary of SB16
Governments mark time on global climate 17th June ENDS

See the ENB report of this side event!! Wednesday 12th June 18:00 CAN Europe, Greenpeace, MIPIGGS side event in Bonn: Potential industrial greenhouse gases: Climate and ozone policy at the crossroads

CAN Non-paper: Key public participation points for consideration at EB4 and Key Opportunities to Strengthen Public Participation in the CDM Greenpeace Briefing Paper, June 2002

ECO

• ECO#3 12th June
• ECO#2 10th June
• Special Edition on Executive Board of CDM, 10th June
• Special Edition Third Assessment Report, 10th June
• ECO#1 7th June

Earth Negotiations Bulletin
UNFCCC Daily programme
UNFCCC:Deadlines for submissions

Key issues

Sinks in the CDM
Articles 5, 7, and 8 (monitoring, reporting and review)
Article 6 of the Convention (education, training and public awareness)
Third Assessment Report of IPCC
Executive Board of the CDM
Links between Montreal Protocol and Climate Convention
Canadian 'clean' energy - read CAN position paper (pdf)
Joint Implementation: Uniform Reporting Format

Sinks in the CDM

• CAN Europe position paper on sinks in the CDM (June 2002)
• Chairman's note from May 16th workshop on definitions and modalities of sinks in the CDM (FCCC/SBSTA/2002/4
• Positions of countries on sinks in the CDM (FCCC/SBSTA/2002/Misc.1) and (FCCC/SBSTA/2002/Misc.1/Add.1) submitted before the workshop on May 16th

Article 6 of the Climate Convention

• CAN position on article 6 of the Convention
• Report of the workshop on developing a work programme for article 6 (FCCC/SBSTA/INF.10)
• Text of article 6:

ARTICLE 6 EDUCATION, TRAINING 
AND PUBLIC AWARENESS In carrying out their commitments 
under Article 4, paragraph 1(i), the Parties shall: 
(a) Promote and facilitate at the national and, as appropriate, 
subregional and regional levels, and in accordance with 
national laws and regulations, and within their respective 
capacities: (i) The development and implementation of 
educational and public awareness programmes on climate 
change and its effects; (ii) Public access to information 
on climate change and its effects; (iii) Public participation 
in addressing climate change and its effects and developing 
adequate responses; and (iv) Training of scientific, 
technical and managerial personnel. (b) Cooperate in 
and promote, at the international level, and, where 
appropriate, using existing bodies: (i) The development 
and exchange of educational and public awareness material 
on climate change and its effects; and (ii) The development 
and implementation of education and training programmes, 
including the strengthening of national institutions 
and the exchange or secondment of personnel to train 
experts in this field, in particular for developing 
countries

Articles 5, 7 and 8 of the Kyoto Protocol

Draft decision for COP8 on guidelines for the preparation of national communications (FCCC/SBSTA/2002/L.5/Add.1) June 2002
Draft decision for COP8 on guidelines for reporting and review of ghg emissions in Annex1 countries (FCCC/SBSTA/2002/L.5/Add.2) June 2002
Verification of the Kyoto Protocol: Filling in the detail. Issues for SBSTA 16. Molly Anderson, VERTIC Briefing Paper May 2002

Third Assessment Report

SBSTA conclusions on the TAR prepared by the Chair(FCCC/SBSTA/2002/CRP.3/Rev.1) June 2002
CAN's recommendations on how to use the scientific findings of the TAR (from ECO article,10th June 2002)

Clean Development Mechanism: Executive Board

CAN Non-paper: Key public participation points for consideration at EB4
ECO Special Edition on Executive Board of CDM, 10th June
Key Opportunities to Strengthen Public Participation in the CDM Greenpeace Briefing Paper, June 2002

Links between Montreal Protocol and Climate Convention

CAN Europe report Climate and Ozone at the Crossroads; the other double dividend June 2002

FCCC/SBSTA/2002/INF.1 Relationship between efforts to protect the stratospheric ozone layer and efforts to safeguard the global climate system: issues related to hydroflourocarbons and perflourocarbons

Joint Implementation: Uniform Reporting Format

Draft conclusion for COP8 on uniform reporting format for activities implemented jointly (FCCC/SBSTA/2002/L.2)