Debates of the COP14 Bureau are of crucial importance for the further preparatory arrangements to COP15, and the Bureau provides a forum for representatives' of all the regional groups within the UN system warm discussions on the final agenda of the COP15. Their talks concerned the date on which both major paths of the Working Group have to be complete, pursuant to outputs attained by the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol and the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention. Setting out this date is extremely important for the mode in which the further negotiations will be carried out both before and in the course of the Copenhagen Conference.

As regards the long-term cooperation path, progress was achieved on the issues of adaptation to climate change and technology transfer, whereas the progress on the Kyoto Protocol was attained concerning change in land use patterns and forestry, and also on the flexible mechanisms (i.e. the Clean Development Mechanism and the Joint Implementation Mechanism).

Moreover, the progress and the key problems were discussed that are crucial for specific negotiation areas. That included the proposal on the course of the informal meeting of both AWG-LCA and AWG-KP Groups in Barcelona, in this November, and also the preparatory arrangements for the future COP16. Minister M. Nowicki said:

- Although the Bangkok meeting proved the negotiations going ahead in certain areas, such as adaptation or transfer technology transfer, however there is no progress as regards the reduction targets, or the funding sources for developing countries. I do hope these matters will be completed in Barcelona to the extent allowing the negotiators to elaborate on the final text of the agreement during the Copenhagen Conference. Political signals incoming from both formal and informal meetings will hopefully bring about positive stimuli to conclude this process.

Yet prior to debates of the Convention Bureau, Professor M. Nowicki had a number of bilateral meetings aimed at discussion of the key issues important for the future negotiation process, including information briefings with the Chairs of both the AWG LCA and the AWG KP, and the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and his Deputy.

During the meeting with Mr. Yvo de Boer, the UNFCCC Executive Secretary, Mr. M. Nowicki discussed political issues pertaining to the current negotiations, including the meetings of political nature under way (i.e. MEF – Major Economies Forum, G20, G8, and Greenland Dialogue – informal meetings of Environmental Ministers concerning climate change). Both statesmen noted progress achieved in many fields, however also agreed upon the need to speeding up the work on financial questions.

Professor M. Nowicki had meeting also with Mr. Kim Carstensen, Leader of WWF Global Climate Initiative. Their discussion concentrated on the role of developed countries in reaching the global agreement and the governance of the resources designated to developing countries. The WWF aims at integration of the international air and marine transport systems into global agreement on reduction of greenhouse gas emissions so, that it could become one of the funding sources of the mitigation and adaptation activities.

During Mr. M. Nowicki's meeting with the Chairs of the AWG LCA – (Mr. Michael Zammit-Cutajar) and the AWG KP (Mr. John Ash) the current status of negotiations on the global agreement beyond 2012 was discussed, including also the most important issues of both negotiation paths and the negotiation progress attained by each of the Working Groups.

Completion of as many as possible negotiation items during the last session in Barcelona and submission of the Working Groups' activities reports prior to inauguration of the High Level Segment in Copenhagen are the preconditions to delivering already in this December a planet-saving pact on global warming there.