Bonn Climate Change Conference

News: The annual Bonn Climate Change Conference began as more than 5,000 government delegates and stakeholders gathered in Bonn, Germany. Bonn Climate Change Conference

About Bonn Climate Change Conference

• It is an annual mid-year meeting that takes place under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) — an international agreement, signed in 1992, that has provided a basis for climate negotiations.
  • Along with the annual Conference of the Parties (COP), it is the only other regular climate summit hosted by the UNFCCC.
• Formal name: The conference is formally known as the Sessions of the UNFCCC Subsidiary Bodies (SBs).
• Objective: The conference takes place to discuss technical and scientific aspects of climate negotiations, and set the agenda for COP, which usually takes place in November.
• Attendants: It is attended by the members of SBs — essentially committees that assist UNFCCC’s governing bodies in implementing and reviewing climate change agreements.
  • The meeting is also attended by Indigenous representatives, international organisations, scientists, and civil society representatives.
• Importance: Recommendations made at the SBs frequently appear in final decisions acted upon by parties at the COP.
  • Here, implementation of agreements set at the previous COP is also discussed.
• Key players
  • There are two permanent SBs of the UNFCCC – the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) and the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA).
    • SBI assists UNFCCC governing bodies in the assessment and review of the implementation of their decisions, along with discussions on financial and technical support to developing countries which are party to the UNFCCC.
    • SBSTA advises governing bodies on scientific knowledge related to climate change, serving as the “link” between scientific advisors at the IPCC and policymakers serving in party delegations at the COPs.
• Agenda for 2025
  • One of the key agenda is the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA), established in the Paris Agreement in 2015, which is an attempt to identify a common global goal on adaptation.