Expert workshop on the Technology Mechanism in conjunction with the fourteenth session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention. Report by the Chair of the workshop.
This report provides a summary of the expert workshop on the Technology Mechanism, organized in conjunction with the fourteenth session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA). The workshop was held in Bangkok, Thailand, from 4 to 5 April 2011. The workshop provided an opportunity for Parties to deepen understanding on the potential for the Technology Mechanism to support the implementation of the Cancun Agreements and to explore options to ensure that the Technology Mechanism is fully operational in 2012. The workshop addressed all matters in the work programme of the AWG-LCA in 2011 on technology development and transfer contained in decision 1/CP.16, paragraph 128. The workshop participants also made some specific suggestions on possible next steps and inputs required to inform Parties in their further deliberation under the AWG-LCA on arrangements to make the Technology Mechanism fully operational in 2012