19-20 September 2011, Bonn, Germany

Agenda (134 kB)

Information note (149 kB)

Report on the workshop

Mandate

The Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) and the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), at their thirty-third sessions, requested the secretariat to organize a joint workshop to address matters relating to Article 2, paragraph 3, and Article 3, paragraph 14, of the Kyoto Protocol, subject to the availability of resources, and with a view to maximizing participation, before their thirty-fifth sessions.

The SBI and the SBSTA, at their thirty-fourth sessions, considered the synthesis of information and views on issues that will be addressed at that workshop.  The SBSTA and the SBI identified issues that will be addressed at their joint workshop, including inter alia

(a) Sharing information to enhance understanding of adverse effects, including the adverse effects of climate change, effects on international trade, and social, environmental and economic impacts;

(b) Minimizing the adverse effects through a process to implement Article 2, paragraph 3, and Article 3, paragraph 14, of the Kyoto Protocol:
(i) Further implementation of decision 31/CMP.1;
(ii) Research and assessment;
(iii) Enhancing support to developing country Parties, particularly those identified
in Article 4, paragraphs 8 and 9, of the Convention;
(iv) Enhancing reporting and verification.

Information and views on issues that could be addressed at the joint workshop on matters relating to Article 2, paragraph 3, and Article 3, paragraph 14, of the Kyoto Protocol from Parties and an NGO

A synthesis of information and views on issues that could be addressed at the joint workshop on matters relating to Article 2, paragraph 3, and Article 3, paragraph 14, of the Kyoto Protocol.

Background paper (276 kB) for workshop on reporting methodologies on Article 3, paragraph 14, of the Kyoto Protocol, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Other information

Trade and Climate Change report (914 kB) by WTO-UNEP

Detailed information on ordinary legislative procedure in the European Union

World Oil Outlook (6229 kB) by OPEC

Presentations

Group/Party/Organization	Presenter	Subject
Chair of the workshop The secretariat	Mr. Eduardo Calvo Ms. Hanna Hoffmann	UNFCCC joint workshop on matters relating to Article 2, paragraph 3, and Article 3, paragraph 14, of the Kyoto Protocol (163 kB)
Singapore	Mr. Peter Govindasamy	Matters relating to Article 2.3 and 3.14 of the Kyoto Protocol: Singapore's perspectives (286 kB)
World Trade Organization	Ms. Vesile Kulaçoğlu	Trade and climate change (1454 kB)
Saudi Arabia	Mr. Aysar Tayeb	Establishing a process (947 kB)
Chair of the Consultative Group of Experts on National Communications from Parties not included in Annex I to the Convention (CGE)	Ms. Sangchan Limjirakan	Reporting of national communications from Parties not included in Annex I to the Convention (7804 kB)
Consultant	Mr. Aaron Cosbey	Information sharing and minimizing adverse effects (1058 kB)
Energy Modelling Cambridge Econometrics	Mr. Philip Summerton	Modelling the impact of the implementation of response measures (145 kB)
ICTSD	Ms. Ingrid Jegou	Response measures - Impact on social and economic development through international trade (418 kB)