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Bulletin
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A Reporting Service for Environment and Development Negotiations
Online at http://www.iisd.ca/climate/cop21/enb/
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PARIS HIGHLIGHTS
SUNDAY, 29 NOVEMBER 2015
ADP OPENING PLENARY
ADP Co-Chair Ahmed Djoghlaf (Algeria) invited delegates
to begin ADP 2-12 with one minute of silence in remembrance
of the innocent victims of terrorism and the late Maurice Strong,
one of the founding fathers of several multilateral environmental
processes. He said that reaching a Paris agreement that enables
the world to live in a climate of peace and in harmony with
nature is the best way to honor those who have passed.
COP 20/CMP 10 President Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, Minister
of Environment, Peru, explained that, with the Paris agreement,
along with the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development and the Sustainable Development Goals in
September 2015, we are framing the new paradigm of
development. He called on delegates to show solidarity and
work efficiently in a time-bound manner to find textual solutions.
Incoming COP 21/CMP 11 President Laurent Fabius, Foreign
Minister, France, expressed hope that the 150 heads of state and
government at the Leaders Event on Monday, 30 November,
would provide political impetus for decisive negotiations.
Underscoring the need to conclude negotiations by Friday,
11 December, he called on delegates to build compromises so as
to leave few pending issues for ministers to decide on during the
second week of COP 21. He said he would work hand-in-hand
with COP 20/CMP 10 President Pulgar-Vidal through the end of
the meeting.
VENEZUELA raised a point of order noting difficulties in
entering the plenary. ADP Co-Chair Djoghlaf assured the plenary
that necessary measures would be taken to ensure access by
parties.
On agenda item 3, ADP Co-Chair Daniel Reifsnyder (US)
highlighted informal notes on workstream 1 and workstream 2
(ADP.2015.10-11.InformalNote), and a technical paper
produced by the Secretariat identifying closely related concepts,
duplications and areas for streamlining (ADP.2015.12.
InformalNote). He noted that the ADP Co-Chairs, along with