The successes and disappointments this week in Germany, where the world’s nations gathered for the 23rd annual conference of the parties to prevent dangerous global warming
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At the second week of the conference,
German chancellor Angela Merkel, the UN secretary general, Emmanuel Macron, prime minister of Fiji Frank Bainimarama and others urged the world’s leaders to use the last days of the talks to succeed in their negotiations, saying: “Climate change is an issue determining our destiny as mankind – it will determine the wellbeing of all of us.”Photograph: Kiara Worth/ENB/IISD
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Inside the pavilions.
Photograph: Ronald Wittek/EPA
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Indigenous groups claimed a victory at the talks as governments acknowledged for the first time that they can play a leadership role in protecting forests and keeping global temperatures at a safe level.
Photograph: Philipp Guelland/EPA
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A giant screen displays information related to the Kyoto protocol at the Bonn Zone. This week it was reported that
fossil fuel burning set to hit a record high in 2017.Photograph: Patrik Stollarz/AFP/Getty Images
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Members of an African country’s delegation chat at the conference. On Tuesday the Ray of the Day award (given to the countries offering a ray of hope) was given to developing country group, G77, for pushing the case for vulnerable countries to receive the support they deserve, in the face of opposition from rich countries including the US and Australia.
Photograph: Philipp Guelland/EPA
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Wednesday saw Brazil presented with the Fossil of the Day – given to the countries judged to have done their ‘best’ to block progress in the negotiations – for
proposing a bill that could give oil companies $300bn in subsidies to drill its offshore reserves.Photograph: James Dowson/UNFCCC
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The launch of the
InsuResilience Global Partnership on Tuesday, that aims to help protect 400 million poor and vulnerable people around the world by 2020 by providing insurance against the damage increasingly being caused by extreme weather caused by global warming.Photograph: James Dowson/UNFCCC
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Representatives of The Big Shift Global
protest against the financing of fossil fuels, offering delegates the chance to put chocolate coins into either a green piggy bank representing green energy, or a brown piggy bank representing fossil fuels.Photograph: Kieria Worth/ENB/IISD
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APA (
Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement) co-chairs Sarah Baashan, Saudi Arabia, and Jo Tyndall, New Zealand, consult with members of the secretariat.Photograph: IISD
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Women, especially women of colour, are disproportionately affected by the impacts of climate change. The
Women and Gender Constituency aims to reverse this inequality and also to raise awareness of the work done by women to combat climate change.Photograph: Angeles Estrada/ENB/IISD
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In the park between the Bula and Bonn Zones, an art installation titled ‘Unbearable’ depicts the
climate crisis, including a ‘freedom to pollute’ sculpture of the Statue of Liberty, and bronze sculptures of climate refugees.Photograph: IISD
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Visitors wait to attend the
US talk, The Role of Cleaner and More Efficient Fossil Fuels and Nuclear Power in Climate Mitigation. One of the few US events at the conference, it was originally billed as promoting clean energy but was
switched to focus on fossil fuels.Photograph: Philipp Guelland/EPA
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During the US talk, that said that fossil fuels were vital to reducing poverty around the world and to saving jobs in the US, the
Trump team was heckled and interrupted by a protest song.Photograph: Lukas Schulze/Getty Images,
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People disrupting the US event by singing.
Photograph: Lukas Schulze/Getty Images
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The ‘We Are Still In’ pavilion, where a delegation of US business, states and city government leaders presented the
America’s Pledge stating their commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions despite Donald Trump’s threat to withdraw from the Paris agreement.Photograph: Lukas Schulze/Getty Images
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The
America’s Pledge group – (L-R) Rocky Mountain Institut CEO Jules Kortenhorst, senator Jeff Merkley, senator Ed Markey, Michael Bloomberg, senator Ben Cardin, former vice president Al Gore, senator Brian Schatz, Walmart VP Laura Phillips, senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Pittsburg mayor Bill Peduto.Photograph: Martin Meissner/AP
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Anti fracking protestors
interrupt America’s Pledge leader, California governor Jerry Brown’s speech.Photograph: Lukas Schulze/Getty Images,
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A delegate walks past a backlit photo at the event, that was hosted this year
by Fiji.Photograph: Ronald Wittek/EPA
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Protesters take part in the ‘Climate March’, one of many demonstrations during the conference.
Photograph: Philipp Guelland/EPA
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