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Item 10 (b) of the provisional agenda. This document is available in English only
Abstract
At the resumed sixth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP), held in Bonn, Germany, from 16 to 27 July 2001, parties considered a proposal by Canada on the potential of clean energy to contribute to global environmental benefits.
The COP took note of an offer from the Government of Canada to convene an informal meeting on the above-mentioned issue and invited the Government of Canada to report on the outcome of the meeting to the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) at its fifteenth session (FCCC/CP/2001/5, part two, II. A). At its fifteenth session, held in Marrakesh, Morocco, from 29 October to 6 November 2001, the SBSTA, having heard a report by a representative from the Government of Canada on the outcome of the informal meeting mentioned above (Calgary, Canada, 2-5 October 2001), requested the secretariat to organize a workshop on the subject of cleaner or less greenhouse gas-emitting energy under the guidance of its Chairman, if possible prior to its sixteenth session, and to prepare a report on the workshop. It accepted an offer from the Government of Canada to host this workshop (FCCC/SBSTA/2001/8, para. 51). This report provides information on the workshop organized by the secretariat in response to the mandate mentioned above. Since not all Parties that had submitted views on the structure and scope of the workshop were able to participate in it, the report should be read in conjunction with document FCCC/SBSTA/2002/MISC.3. The UNFCCC workshop on cleaner or less greenhouse gas-emitting energy: exchange of information and views, was organized by the secretariat in Whistler, Canada, from 7 to 8 May 2002, with financial support provided by the Government of Canada. Thirty-two representatives from Parties attended the workshop, including 17 from Parties included in Annex I to the Convention and 15 from Parties not included in Annex I to the Convention. In addition, 11 representatives of non-governmental organizations attended the workshop. A copy of the agenda is contained in the annex to this report. The workshop was chaired by Mr. Harald Dovland (Norway), on behalf of the Chairman of the SBSTA, Mr. Halldor Thorgeirsson. This report, the presentations and other material distributed at the workshop are available on the UNFCCC secretariat web site at the following address: http://unfccc.int/sessions/workshop/070502/index.html
Meeting
Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), Sixteenth session, 5-14 June 2002, Bonn, Germany
Keywords
clean energy
conference papers
conferences
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Publication date
03/06/2002