The twenty-sixth sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) and the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was held from 7-18 May 2007. The third session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG) was held from 14-18 May. The third workshop under the Dialogue on long-term cooperative action to address climate change by enhancing implementation of the Convention took place from 16-17 May 2007. All meetings were held at the Hotel Maritim, Bonn, Germany.
Organization of the May 2007 meetings
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14-18 May: Third session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol
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14 May: AWG round table discussion on mitigation potentials of policies, measures and technologies
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16-17 May: Dialogue on long-term cooperative action to address climate change by enhancing implementation of the Convention
In-session workshops
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11 May: Workshop on the proposal of the Russian Federation to develop appropriate procedures for the approval of voluntary commitments
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11 May: Workshop on urban planning and development, including transportation
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15 May: Workshop on energy efficiency, including industry, and residential and commercial end-use
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15 May: Workshop on power generation, including clean fossil fuels and renewable energy
Briefings
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12 May: Briefing by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): the IPCC will provide an in-depth report on the contributions of the three working groups to the Fourth Assessment Report
Other meetings
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Revised dates for the intersessional meetings of the AWG and the Dialogue:
Following consultations with the Bureau, the dates of the intersessional meetings of the AWG and the Dialogue have been moved forward by one week to 27-31 August 2007 due to a parallel conference in Vienna and a lack of available hotels in the originally scheduled time period.