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Summary of the results of the implementation of the Nairobi work programme
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Summary of the results of the implementation of the Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change for the period up to the twenty-eighth session of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice. Note by the secretariat. This summary report provides an overview of the outcomes of activities under the Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change completed up to the conclusion of the twenty-eighth session of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice. The report elaborates on the approach taken to implement the work programme and contains information on the outcomes of completed activities undertaken in each of the nine areas of work, on how organizations, institutions, experts, communities and the private sector are engaged in the implementation of the work programme and on how the deliverables of completed activities have been disseminated. The report concludes with issues for further consideration, including those that could be forwarded to the Subsidiary Body for Implementation for its consideration.

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Report of the workshop on policy approaches and positive incentives
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Report of the workshop on 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. Summary by the chair of the workshop.

This note by the Chair of the AWG-LCA, Mr. Luiz Alberto Figueiredo Machado, summarizes the presentations, exchange of views and discussions by Parties at the workshop on "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". Background to the discussions in the workshop was provided by Parties submissions specific to this workshop and to the sessions of the AWG-LCA, and by the Chair s summaries of views expressed at the first and second sessions.

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Ideas and proposals on the elements contained in paragraph 1 of the Bali Action Plan
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Ideas and proposals on the elements contained in paragraph 1 of the Bali Action Plan - Submissions from intergovernmental organizations.

At its ninth meeting, the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), requested the Executive Secretary to summarize information on the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity relevant for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in developing countries (REDD) found within existing documents. Parties further requested that the Executive Secretary provide this information to the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change with the intention that it be transmitted to the third and subsequent sessions of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action (decision IX/16, paragraph 16).

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Ideas and proposals on the elements contained in paragraph 1 of the Bali Action Plan
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The Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA), at its second session, invited Parties to submit to the secretariat ideas and proposals and, where appropriate and to the extent possible, 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 of the elements, in order to focus the consideration of all the five elements by the AWG-LCA. The secretariat has received 14 such submissions. As requested by the AWG-LCA, they have been posted on the UNFCCC website. In accordance with the procedure for miscellaneous documents, these submissions are attached and reproduced in the language in which they were received and without formal editing. The secretariat will continue to post on the relevant web page the submissions received after the issuance of the present document. Submissions received from accredited intergovernmental organizations will be compiled in document FCCC/AWGLCA/2008/MISC.3.

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Summary of views expressed during the second session of the Ad Hoc Working Group
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Summary of views expressed during the second session of the Ad Hoc Working Group. The second session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA) was held in Bonn, Germany, from 2 to 12 June 2008. At that session, Parties considered all the elements of decision 1/CP.13 (the Bali Action Plan): a shared vision for long-term cooperative action; enhanced national/international action on mitigation; enhanced action on adaptation; enhanced action on technology development and transfer to support action on mitigation and adaptation; and enhanced action on the provision of financial resources and investment to support action on mitigation and adaptation and technology cooperation. The AWG-LCA invited the Chair to prepare a summary of the views expressed in that session.

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