Eleventh session of the AWG-LCA (UNFCCC AWG-LCA 11)
Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA)
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.
At its fiftheenth session, the COP, by its decision 1/CP.15 (Outcome of the work of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention), extended the mandate of the AWG-LCA to enable it to continue its work with a view to presenting the outcome of its work to the COP for adoption at its sixteenth session.