Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA)

In 2007, in Bali, the COP decided to launch a comprehensive process to enable the full, effective and sustained implementation of the Convention through long-term cooperative action,  up to and beyond 2012, in order to reach an agreed outcome and adopt a decision at its fifteenth session, by addressing, inter alia, enhanced action on technology development and transfer to support action on mitigation and enhanced action on the provision of financial resources and investment to support action on mitigation and adaptation and technology cooperation ( decision 1/CP. 13).

The COP, at its eighteenth session, adopted the agreed outcome pursuant to the Bali Action Plan (decision 1/CP. 18) and noted that this decision, together with decisions adopted by the COP at its sixteenth and seventeenth sessions, constitutes the agreed outcome pursuant to decision 1/CP.13.

Technology under the AWG-LCA

At COP 16, as part of the Cancun Agreements, a Technology Mechanism was established (decision 1/CP.16), comprising a Technology Executive Committee (TEC) and a Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN).

At COP 17, arrangements to make the Technology Mechanism fully operational by 2012 were developed by adopting the terms of reference of the CTCN and launching the selection process for the host of the Climate Technology Centre (CTC).

At COP 18, Parties selected UNEP, as the leader of a consortium of partner institutions, as the host of the CTC for an initial term of 5 years. Furthermore, the Advisory Board of the CTCN was also established.

Outstanding issues

Parties still have to agree on:

• The relationship between the CTCN and the TEC in order to ensure coherence and synergy within the Technology Mechanism (to be initiated at COP 19)
• The linkages between the Technology Mechanism and the financial mechanism under the Convention (to be further elaborated at COP 20).