The Conference of the Parties (COP), at its thirteenth session, established the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA) 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. At its sixteenth session, the COP decided to extend the AWG-LCA for one year in order for it to continue its work with a view to carrying out the undertakings contained in decision 1/CP.16 and present its results to the COP for consideration at its seventeenth session. The AWG-LCA will resume its work at the fourth part of its fourteenth session on 29 November 2011 in Durban, South Africa. The meeting will be held in conjunction with the seventeenth session of the COP, which is to close on 9 December 2011. As per decision 1/CP.16, paragraph 143, the AWG-LCA is to present the results of its work to the COP for consideration.