At its thirteenth session, the Conference of the Parties (COP), by its decision 1/CP.13 (the Bali Action Plan), launched 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, in order to reach an agreed outcome and adopt a decision at its fifteenth session.

It decided that the process shall be conducted under a subsidiary body under the Convention, the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA), that shall complete its work in 2009 and present the outcome of its work to the Conference of the Parties for adoption at its fifteenth session.

The third session of the AWG-LCA was held from Thursday, 21 August to Wednesday, 27 August 2008, in conjunction with the first part of the sixth session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol in Accra, Ghana.

The group held two in-session workshops on:

• Cooperative sectoral approaches and sector-specific actions, in order to enhance implementation of Article 4, paragraph 1(c), of the Convention

• Policy approaches and positive incentives on issues relating to reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries; and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries

The Chair of the AWG-LCA prepared a scenario note on the third session to share with delegations his plans and expectations for the session, focusing on the organization of work. Delegates were invited to consult the scenario note and the provisional agenda and annotations by the secretariat in preparation for the session.

New submissions by Parties
Party	Date of submission	Topic
China	28 September 2008	China’s views on enabling the full, effective and sustained implementation of the Convention through Long-term Cooperative Action now, up to and beyond 2012 (108 kB)
Turkey	8 September 2008	Information, views and proposals by Turkey regarding paragraph 1 of the Bali Action Plan of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long term Cooperative Action under the Convention (743 kB)
Antigua and Barbuda on behalf of the Group of 77 and China	27 August 2008	A Technology Mechanism under the UNFCCC (112 kB)
Ghana	26 August 2008	Proposal on options for effective mechanisms and enhanced means for technology development and tranfer (180 kB)
Barbados on behalf of the Alliance of the Small Island States	26 August 2008	Preliminary views on adaptation under the AWG-LCA (59 kB)
South Africa on behalf of the African Group	26 August 2008	Adaptation and means of implementation (63 kB)
Philippines on behalf of the Group of 77 and China	25 August 2008	Proposal on Financial Mechanism for Meeting Financial Commitments under the Convention (84 kB)
Mongolia	23 August 2008	Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (80 kB)
Switzerland	21 August 2008	Funding scheme for Bali Action Plan (296 kB)
Australia	21 August 2008	Estimation of Greenhouse Gases and Global Warming Potentials (78 kB)
		Views on the coverage of greenhouse gases (110 kB)
		Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (76 kB)
		Cooperative sectoral approaches (69 kB)
		Emission trading and the Project-based Mechanisms (81 kB)
		Enhanced action on adaptation (82 kB)
		Technology cooperation (105 kB)
		Enhanced Action on Financial Resources and Investment (103 kB)
Indonesia	19 August 2008	Sectoral approaches (89 kB)
Ukraine	19 August 2008	Long-term cooperative action (83 kB)
Mexico	18 August 2008	Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (26 kB)
Papua New Guinea	15 August 2008	Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (120 kB)
Japan	15 August 2008	Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (59 kB)
New Zealand	15 August 2008	Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (136 kB)
Norway	14 August 2008	Emissions of GHG from international maritime transport post 2012 (73 kB)
		Auctioning allowances (67 kB)
Japan	14 August 2008	Global Long-term Goal (71 kB)
Mexico	13 August 2008	Enhanced action on the provision of financial resources and investment to support action on mitigation and adaptation and technology cooperation (131 kB)
Japan	13 August 2008	Commitments or Actions by Developed Countries and Actions by Developing Countries (75 kB)
		Sectoral Approach (296 kB)
		Innovative Technology Development (410 kB)
Republic of Korea	13 August 2008	Market-based Post-2012 Climate Regime (101 kB)
Uruguay	8 August 2008	Enhanced national/international action on mitigation of climate change (54 kB)
France on behalf of the European Community and its Member States	30 July 2008	Mitigation, including technology and finance (138 kB)
		Adaptation, including technology and finance (155 kB)
		Cooperative sectoral approaches (101 kB)
		Policy approaches and positive incentives on issues relating to reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries; and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries (94 kB)
Singapore	22 July 2008	Shared vision (66 kB)
		Mitigation (90 kB)
		Adaptation (79 kB)
New Zealand on behalf of Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, Environmental Integrity Group, European Community and its Member States, Iceland, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Paraguay, Russian Federation, South Africa, United States, Uruguay	16 July 2008	Technical paper on mitigation in the agricultural sector (62 kB)
Japan	30 May 2008	Information, views and proposals on paragraph 1 of Bali Action Plan (for AWG-LCA2) (500 kB)
Submissions by IGOs
Submissions by observers

The second session of the AWG-LCA took place in Bonn from 2 to 12 June 2008.  At this session, the AWG-LCA focused its work on building common understanding of the elements of the Bali Action Plan.  The group held three focused in-session workshops. Parties presented a number of concrete ideas and proposals on how to address the shared vision, mitigation, adaptation, technology and finance.  The AWG-LCA concluded this  session by inviting Parties to submit specific textual proposals on the elements contained in paragraph 1 of the Bali Action Plan, taking into account the interlinkages among the elements and the specific subparagraphs under each element.

The first session of the AWG-LCA took place in Bangkok, Thailand, from 31 March to 4 April 2008. At this meeting, the AWG-LCA agreed to undertake its work, seeking progress on all the elements assigned to it by the Bali Action Plan, in a coherent, integrated and transparent manner, and identified specific workshops to be held in 2008. It further agreed to organize its work at each session to include each of the elements, taking into account the interlinkages among them, and the work of the Convention’s subsidiary bodies in the context of the Bali Road Map.