What is the AWG-KP?

In 2005, the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP) at its first meeting in Montreal, by its decision 1/CMP.1, established the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP). The aim of the AWG-KP is to discuss future commitments for industrialized countries under the Kyoto Protocol. The AWG-KP reports to the CMP.

In 2010, the CMP, by its decision 1/CMP.6, agreed that the AWG-KP shall aim to complete its work and have its results adopted by the CMP as early as possible and in time to ensure that there is no gap between the first and second commitment periods. The first commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol ends in 2012.