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Background
The Conference of the Parties (COP), at its eighteenth session, decided to undertake a work programme
on results-based finance in 2013 to progress the full implementation of the activities referred to in
 decision 1/CP.16, paragraph
70 (hereafter referred to as REDD-plus activities).
The COP decided that the aim of the work programme is to contribute to the ongoing efforts to scale
up and improve the effectiveness of finance for REDD-plus activities, taking into account decision 2/CP.17, paragraphs
66 and 67.
The work programme will address options to achieve this objective, taking into account a wide variety
of sources as referred to in decision 2/CP.17, paragraph 65, including:
(a). Ways and means to transfer payments for results-based actions;
(b). Ways to incentivize non-carbon benefits;
(c). Ways to improve the coordination of results-based finance;
It will draw upon relevant sources of information and will also take into account lessons learned
from other processes under the Convention and from fast-start finance;
The COP decided that the work programme shall end by its nineteenth session unless it decides
otherwise.
Co-chairs of the work programme
The COP invited the President of the COP to appoint two co-chairs, one from a developing country
Party and one from a developed country Party, for the work programme referred to above.
The COP requests that the co-chairs, assisted by the secretariat, to:
(a). Support two in-session workshops relating to the issues to be addressed by the work
programme;
(b). Prepare a report on the workshops for consideration by the COP at its nineteenth session,
with a view to its adoption of a decision on this matter;
(c). Coordinate the activities of the work programme with the work under the Subsidiary Body
for Scientific and Technological Advice related to methodological guidance for activities relating
to reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and the role of conservation,
sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries.
Refer also to decision
1/CP.18, paragraphs 25–33.
Upon request by H.E. Mr. Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, President of the eighteenth session of the
Conference of the Parties and the eighth session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the
meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, the secretariat sent out a Message to Parties on 25 March
2013 (59 kB) announcing the appointment of the following co-chairs for this work programme:
In a Message to
Parties from the co-chairs on 19 April 2013 (161 kB) , the co-chairs have declared their
availability for informal meetings with any Party and/or regional groups of Parties to gather views
and suggestions on the margins of the forthcoming second session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the
Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP2) in Bonn, Germany. The co-chairs alternatively offered to
arrange a teleconference with interested Parties and welcomed views and comments on the way forward
by e-mail.
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