United Nation’s Climate Change Conference

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) convened a climate change conference from September 1^st - 9^th, 2018 in Bangkok, Thailand to further negotiations under its constituted bodies, the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI), the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technical Advice (SBSTA), and the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement (APA). Preparatory meetings for the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) and the Group of 77 and China (G77 and China) met on August 30^th - 31^st, 2018 consecutively.

The three (3) subsidiary bodies which previously convened in Bonn in May, 2018 decided that an additional session was necessary to ensure the timely conclusion of negotiations towards achieving the Paris Agreement Work Programme (PAWP). The negotiations at this session were largely focused on advancing work on the PAWP, a set of decisions that will operationalise the Paris Agreement and facilitate its implementation. The Paris Agreement entered into force on November 4^th, 2016. The deadline set for the completion of negotiations for the PAWP is the Twenty Fourth Conference of Parties (COP 24) to be convened in Katowice, Poland in December 2018. 

The key focus of these meetings was to advance discussions on several items under the subsidiary bodies as well as all issues under the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement. These include: mitigation, adaptation, finance, transparency, the global stock take, response measures, market and non-market approaches, compliance with, and implementation of the Paris Agreement; and possible additional PAWP items, including matters related to the Adaptation Fund, loss and damage and preparation for the convening of the Twenty Fourth Conference of Parties (COP 24) of the UNFCCC and its various related meetings. At the end of the session, a compilation of documents was published known as the “Bangkok Outcome” which reflects the status of negotiations on the PAWP at the Bangkok session.

Approximately 1,600 participants including nearly 1,200 government delegates and 400 representatives from United Nations (UN) bodies and agencies, intergovernmental organisations, civil society organisations and media representatives attended these meetings. Trinidad and Tobago was represented at these meetings by Mr. Kishan Kumarsingh, Head, Multilateral Environmental Agreements Unit (MEAU), Ministry of Planning and Development (MPD) and Ms. Sindy Singh, Climate Change Specialist, MEAU, MPD.

T&T Representative - Ms. Sindy Singh

Ms. Sindy Singh participates at the G77 and China Huddle on
Climate Change Adaptation Communications