At its thirteenth session, the Conference of the Parties (COP), by its decision 1/CP.13 (the Bali Action Plan), launched 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 and adopt a decision at its fifteenth session. It decided that the process shall be conducted under a subsidiary body under the Convention, the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA), that shall complete its work in 2009 and present the outcome of its work to the Conference of the Parties for adoption at its fifteenth session.
At its fiftheenth session, the COP, by its decision -/CP.15 (Outcome of the work of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention) (107 kB) , extended the mandate of the AWG-LCA to enable it to continue its work with a view to presenting the outcome of its work to the COP for adoption at its sixteenth session.
At the same session, the COP elected Ms. Margaret Mukahanana-Sangarwe as the Chair of the AWG-LCA, Mr. Daniel A. Reifsnyder as the Vice-Chair of the AWG-LCA and Ms. Teodora Obradovik-Grncarovska as the Rapporteur of the AWG-LCA. Information on the AWG-LCA Officers is available here.

NEW!  The report of the AWG-LCA at its eighth session, including an annex containing the draft texts presented to the COP at its fifteenth session, is available as document FCCC/AWGLCA/2009/17.

A document compiling the work undertaken by the COP at its fifteenth session on the basis of the report of the AWG-LCA will be available soon.

Information note pertaining to an invitation for submissions (1081 kB)
This information note contains a joint message from the Chair of the AWG-LCA and the Chair of the AWG-KP and an additional message from the Chair of the AWG-LCA.  These messages invite Parties to submit their views by 16 February 2010. 

The AWG-LCA at its first session (Bangkok, Thailand, 31 March - 4 April 2008) 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.
At the second session (Bonn, Germany, 2-12 June 2008), Parties presented a number of concrete ideas and proposals on how to address the elements of the Bali Action Plan: shared vision, mitigation, adaptation, technology and finance. At its third session (Accra, Ghana, 21-27 August 2008), the AWG-LCA invited its Chair to assemble ideas and proposals into a document which could serve as a first version of a negotiating text. This Assembly document was updated by the Chair of the AWG-LCA, at the fourth session of the Group (Poznań, Poland, 1-10 December 2008).
At the same session, the AWG-LCA agreed to shift into a full negotiating mode. For that purpose, the AWG-LCA also requested its Chair to prepare a document, for consideration at its fifth session (Bonn, Germany, 29 March - 8 April 2009), that would further focus the negotiating process on the fulfilment of the Bali Action Plan and on the components of the agreed outcome.
The Group also requested its Chair to prepare a negotiating text for consideration at the sixth session of the AWG-LCA (Bonn, Germany, 1-12 June 2009). The document took account of the proceedings of the AWG-LCA at its fifth session and of further submission received from Parties by 5 May 2009.
During the sixth session, Parties provided general comments on the structure and content of the negotiating text, 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), which was the basis for discusions at the intersessional informal consultations (Bonn, Germany, 10 - 14 August 2009).  The revised negotiating text, as well as material reflecting the work undertaken at the informal consultations are available here.

All documents of the AWG-LCA are available here

Workshops and other activities:  The AWG-LCA at its first session agreed that its work should be facilitated by workshops and other activities to clarify and deepen understanding of the elements contained in the Bali Action Plan.
In-session workshops
Technical briefings
Presentation of the Focus document (66 kB)