At Bangkok, meetings of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol to discuss the post Kyoto framework and the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention to discuss changes to the Kyoto Protocol were held in parallel.
The first, the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Protocol ("AWG-KP"), is working to define post-2012 commitments under Kyoto.
CWHN and the Centres of Excellence continue to work as part of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Women, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Addictions (established in 2006) to promote the need for a sex- and gender-based analysis, especially as the Commission begins to implement its recommendations.
Srirat Rastapana, a senior diplomat at the commerce ministry, said over the phone from Bangkok that Supachai is likely to take the chairmanship of either the ad hoc working group on agriculture or on implementation of the Uruguay Round.
An important next stage in the process, which will take place during the fifty-third session of the Assembly, is the creation of an open-ended ad hoc working group "to undertake an in-depth examination of all the inputs requested" and prepare recommendations on the "form, scope and agenda of the high-level international intergovernmental consideration of the topic" - a challenging task, given the diversity of interests between industrialized and developing countries.
From the Ad Hoc Working Group on Women, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Addictions Violence and trauma, including childhood abuse, sexual abuse, and intimate partner violence, are common in Canada.
The critical negotiating groups under the UNFCCC process are the so-called Ad Hoc Working Groups – particularly the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitment for Annex 1 Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG KP) whose mandate is to find acceptable new commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol for the post- 2012 period; and the Ad Hoc Working Group for Long Term Cooperative Action, whose mandate is to produce an agreement in 2009 in Copenhagen in order to enhance implementation of the current UNFCCC, aiming to incentivize non-Kyoto developed countries and advanced developing countries to take further action.
