Copenhagen, 21 December (Meena Raman) - Parties at the Copenhagen climate meetings have requested the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA) and the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex 1 Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP) to continue their work and present results by the next meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP) and the COP serving as the Meeting of Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (CMP) in 2010.

The sixteenth meeting of the COP and the sixth meeting of the CMP are scheduled to be from 29 November to 10 December 2010 and is to be held in Mexico.

The Copenhagen COP adopted the decision to extend 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. It also requested the AWG-LCA to continue its work drawing on the report of the AWG-LCA presented to the COP at its fifteenth session, as well as work undertaken by the COP on the basis of that report.

As regards the AWG-KP, in order to ensure that there is no gap between the first and second commitment periods of the Kyoto Protocol and recognizing that Annex I Parties should continue to take the lead in combating climate change, the CMP requested the AWG-KP's work on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol to deliver the results of its work for adoption by the CMP at its sixth session. It also requested the AWG-KP to continue its work drawing on the draft text forwarded as part of its report during the Copenhagen meeting of the CMP.

TWN Update No. 24
Copenhagen News Update
21 December 2009
Published by the Third World Network
www.twnside.org.sg

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