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ARTICLE · 15 NOVEMBER 2013

COP 19 – Day 2 Of The Conference

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Having completed the formalities of COP 19 on Day 1, Day 2 opened with a plenary meeting of the AWG-DP.

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Having completed the formalities of COP 19 on Day 1, Day 2 opened with a plenary meeting of the AWG-DP. Through the course of the day, contact groups, informal consultations, workshops and other events convened under the AWG-DP, SBI and SBSTA. This alert covers some of the issues discussed at these meetings.

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The Co-Chair (Kishan Kumarsingh) opened this third part of AWG-DP 2 and highlighted the positive drive by parties to "shift gears" by moving forward and not in reverse on negotiating a text that defines the content and elements of the 2015 agreement ("workstream 1"). In relation to pre-2020 ambition ("workstream 2"), the co-chair called for a common understanding of the concrete outcome in Warsaw.

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