COP 19 – Day 8 Of The Conference

The second week of the conference began with the COP President calling an informal stocktaking session, aiming to unite and focus the parties ahead of a week of hopefully more productive negotiations as the ministers begin to arrive. Simultaneously, the closing plenary session of the SBI reconvened, determined to conclude its meeting after a long weekend of negotiations.

Across town, much attention is being drawn to the controversially co-hosted International Coal and Climate Summit. Perhaps surprisingly, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres delivered the keynote speech, diplomatically stating that her attendance should be seen as "neither a tacit approval of coal use, nor is it a call for the immediate disappearance of coal."