Country representatives listen to the opening remarks by UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres during the Opening Ceremony of the UN COP20 and CMP10 conference in Lima, on December 01, 2014. The UN 20th session of the Conference of the Parties on Climate Change and the 10th session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol is being held from December 1st to 12th in Lima. AFP PHOTO/CRIS BOURONCLE / AFP / CRIS BOURONCLE
How will the negotiations be organized during COP21?
Provisional timetable
29 NOVEMBER: ADP OPENING DAY
At 17:00, the negotiations will open early at the request of the two ADP* co-chairs, Ahmed Djoghlaf (Algeria) and Daniel Reifsnyder (United States), to “so as to ensure the best use of the very limited time available to ADP to finalize its work.”
DAY OF 30 NOVEMBER: HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT PHASE
At 10:00, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development, Laurent Fabius, will officially be invested with the Presidency of the Conference of the Parties, before the political sequence with addresses by the 147 Heads of State and Government who have answered the invitation of the President of the French Republic, François Hollande, and Laurent Fabius. Further information.
