Mandate:
The AWG-KP, at the second part of its sixth session requested the secretariat to organize an in-session workshop on potential consequences at the seventh session of the AWG-KP under the guidance of its Chair (FCCC/KP/AWG/2008/8, para. 55 (b)). 

Objective:
The objective of the workshop will be to discuss relevant work under the Conference of the Parties and the CMP and to exchange information on issues identified at the resumed sixth session including: evidence of actual impacts and consequences of tools, policies, measures and methodologies available to Annex I Parties; positive and negative potential consequences; how the causes and effects of potential consequences can be assessed; and possible approaches to group actions that lead to these potential consequences.

Background material:
Information Note
FCCC/KP/AWG/2009/INF.3

Organization:
The workshop will be divided into four segments as follows:
1. Introduction and welcome
2. Presentations by Parties on the issues identified above
3. Presentations by international organizations on the results of relevant technical analyses
4. Discussion

Presentations by Parties:

1.  African Group

2.  G77 and China

3.  Saudi Arabia

4.  Australia

5.  Kuwait

6.  Qatar

Presentations by intergovernmental observer organizations:

1. OPEC

Report:
The report by the chair of the workshop can be obtained here.