What is the AWG-LCA?

The Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA) is a susidiary body under the Convention established by  decision 1/CP.13 (the Bali Action Plan) to conduct a comprehensive process to enable the full, effective and sustained implementation of the Convention through long-term cooperative action, now, up to and beyond 2012, in order to reach an agreed outcome to be presented to the Conference of the Parties (COP) for adoption.

The COP, at its sixteenth session, adopted decision 1/CP.16 (Outcome of the work of the Ad Hoc Working Group on long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention).

The COP, at its seventeenth session, adopted decision 2/CP.17 Outcome of the work of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention and by its decision 1/CP.17 extended the AWG-LCA for one year in order for it to continue its work and reach the agreed outcome pursuant to decision 1/CP.13 (Bali Action Plan).

At the same session, the COP elected  Mr. Aysar Ahmed Al Tayeb as the Chair of the AWG-LCA, Mr. Marc Pallemaerts as the Vice-Chair of the AWG-LCA and Ms. Valeria González Posse as the Rapporteur of the AWG-LCA.