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Revised Negotiating Text
The Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA) at its sixth session, had before it a negotiating text (FCCC/AWGLCA/2009/8) prepared by its Chair. During the sixth session Parties provided general comments on its structure and content, stated reservations and objections to elements of the text, and proposed additions and modifications.  This resulted in a revised negotiating text (FCCC/AWGLCA/2009/INF.1).

Scenario note on the sixth session. Note by the Chair

Provisional agenda and annotations. Note by the Executive Secretary

Background information
The AWG-LCA had before it a negotiating text prepared by its Chair, under his own responsibility, taking account of the proceedings of the AWG-LCA at its fifth session, building upon the ideas and proposals of Parties and document FCCC/AWGLCA/2008/16/Rev.1 and taking account of further submissions received from Parties by 24 April 2009, as requested by the AWG-LCA at its fourth session. 

The Chair’s negotiating text is contained in document FCCC/AWGLCA/2009/8 and takes account of submissions received up to 5 May 2009. 

Scenario note on the fifth session. Note by the Chair

Provisional agenda and annotations. Note by the Executive Secretary

The AWG-LCA had before it a document prepared to further focus the negotiating process on the fulfilment of the Bali Action Plan and on the components of the agreed outcome to be adopted by the Conference of the Parties at its fifteenth session, describing areas of convergence in the ideas and proposals of Parties, exploring options for dealing with areas of divergence and identifying any gaps that might need to be filled in reaching an agreed outcome.

This document builds upon the ideas and proposals of Parties and document FCCC/AWGLCA/2008/16/Rev.1 and takes account of further submissions received from Parties by 6 February 2009. This document was presented by the Chair of the AWG-LCA at a pre-sessional event, in an informal setting in Bonn, 27 March. The presentation is available here (66 kB) .

Further information on the on-going invitation for submissions to the AWG-LCA is available here (209 kB) .

• Work programme for 2009

• Report to the Conference of the Parties at its fourteenth session on progress made

• Update of the Assembly document
  As requested by the AWG-LCA, the Chair has updated the document assembling the ideas and proposals presented by Parties on the elements contained in paragraph 1 of the Bali Action Plan, also taking into account the ideas and proposals from accredited organizations, before the closure of the fourth session of the AWG-LCA.

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Third session, Accra, Ghana, 21-27 August 2008

The Chair of the LCA was invited to compile proposals by Parties into a document which could serve as a first version of a negotiating text at Poznań in December.

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Second session, Bonn, Germany, 2-12 June 2008

Parties presented a number of concrete ideas and proposals on how to address the shared vision, mitigation, adaptation, technology and finance. The AWG-LCA concluded this session by inviting Parties to submit specific textual proposals on the elements contained in paragraph 1 of the Bali Action Plan.

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First session, Bangkok, Thailand, 31 March-4 April 2008

The AWG-LCA agreed to undertake its work, seeking progress on all the elements assigned to it by the Bali Action Plan, and identified specific workshops to be held in 2008. It further agreed to organize its work at each session to include each of the elements, taking into account the interlinkages among them, and the work of the Convention’s subsidiary bodies in the context of the Bali Road Map.

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