Bonn Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany

Discover the Bonn Climate Change Conference, a key UNFCCC event where global leaders and experts meet annually to negotiate and advance international climate action goals.

Context: The annual Bonn Climate Change Conference began in Bonn, Germany.

About Bonn Climate Change Conference

What is it?: An annual mid-year meeting organised under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
- Acts as a key platform to advance climate negotiations before the annual COP (Conference of the Parties).
Launched: 1992
- Formally called the Sessions of the UNFCCC Subsidiary Bodies (SBs).
Purpose: To discuss the technical and scientific aspects of climate action.
- Helps in setting the agenda for the COP summit, held typically in November.
- Also reviews the implementation of agreements made at the previous COP.
Who Attends? Members of the Subsidiary Bodies (SBs), Indigenous peoples’ representatives, scientists, civil society, and international organisations.
Key Agenda for 2025: Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA), which is an attempt to identify a common global goal on adaptation, just like keeping temperatures below the 1.5 degrees Celsius threshold is a global goal on mitigation.

Fact

Subsidiary Bodies (SBs)– essentially, committees that assist UNFCCC’s governing bodies in implementing and reviewing climate change agreements.
2 permanent SBs of the UNFCCC:
- Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI): It assists UNFCCC governing bodies in the assessment and review of the implementation of their decisions.
  - It also facilitates discussions on financial and technical support to developing countries which are party to the UNFCCC.
- Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA): It advises governing bodies on scientific knowledge related to climate change.