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Introduction
A. Mandate
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The Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention(AWG-LCA), at its fourth session,
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invited its Chair to prepare, under his own responsibility, anegotiating text for consideration at its sixth session, building upon the ideas and proposals of Parties andupon the Chair’s assembly document
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and taking account of the organization of work under theAWG-LCA. In preparing this text, the Chair was further requested to take account of the proceedings of the AWG-LCA at its fifth session and of further submissions received from Parties by 24 April 2009.2.
The AWG-LCA agreed
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that the negotiating text shall encompass all aspects of the Bali ActionPlan (decision 1/CP.13) in a balanced manner; not attribute ideas and proposals to their sources; bedrafted in language that does not prejudge the form of the agreed outcome; and be made available by thesecretariat in a timely manner, preferably two weeks in advance of the sixth session.
B. Sources, approach and presentation
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The organization of work on this negotiating text enabled the Chair to take account of ideas and proposals contained in the most recent set of submissions from Parties received by the secretariat from theend of the fifth session up to 5 May 2009. These submissions are contained in documentFCCC/AWGLCA/2009/MISC.4. The oral reports from the contact groups as reflected in the Chair’ssummary of views expressed during the fifth session,
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as well as the reports of workshops held during thesession were the basis for taking account of the proceedings of that session. Ideas and proposalssubmitted previously were also drawn upon, as was the above-mentioned Chair’s assembly document.
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In presenting this negotiating text, the Chair aims to provide a starting point for the negotiationsat the sixth session by reflecting ideas and proposals by Parties in a structured and comprehensive butconcise manner. As is customary in the practice of negotiation, it is envisaged that the text will be a“living document”, with Parties modifying it and bringing new ideas to bear. In fact, several Parties haveindicated their intention to bring forward additional proposals.5.
The depth of coverage of each element of the Bali Action Plan in this negotiating text variesaccording to the depth of consideration that each has received to date. A particular case is that of theconsideration of a shared vision for long-term cooperative action, in which Parties have yet to engage inclarifying how to integrate in their shared vision the essence of their agreed goals under the four building blocks of the Plan (adaptation, mitigation, technology and financing). A placeholder for such integrationis provided in the relevant chapter of the negotiating text.6.
The text is intended to reflect proposals and options in sufficient detail to convey their essence,without including all details of content and modalities for implementation that were provided by the proposing Parties. The text does include indications given by Parties of the need for elaboration of suchdetails; however, there are other elements not so indicated that may also be deemed to require elaboration,once the Parties determine which options to develop further. Parties are invited to consider, in their negotiations on the different aspects of the Bali Action Plan, what level of detail should be achieved intheir agreed outcome and what may be left for further elaboration by the Conference of the Parties (COP).
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FCCC/AWGLCA/2008/17, paragraph 26 (b).
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FCCC/AWGLCA/2008/16/Rev.1.
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FCCC/AWGLCA/2008/17, paragraph 27.
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FCCC/AWGLCA/2009/9.
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Submissions received since 5 May will be issued for the sixth session as documentFCCC/AWGLCA/2009/MISC.4/Add.1.
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