26 May 2011: The UNFCCC Secretariat has published the report (FCCC/AWGLCA/2011/INF.2) by the Chair of the expert workshop on the Technology Mechanism, held in conjunction with the 14th session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA 14).

The report provides a summary of the expert workshop, which was held in Bangkok, Thailand, from 4-5 April 2011. The workshop provided an opportunity for parties to deepen understanding on the potential for the Technology Mechanism to support the implementation of the Cancun Agreements and to explore options aimed at ensuring that the Technology Mechanism is fully operational in 2012. The workshop addressed all matters in the work programme of the AWG-LCA in 2011 on technology development and transfer contained in decision 1/CP.16, paragraph 128. Workshop participants made some specific suggestions on possible next steps and inputs required to inform parties in their further deliberations under the AWG-LCA on arrangements to make the Technology Mechanism fully operational in 2012. [Publication: Expert Workshop on the Technology Mechanism in Conjunction with the Fourteenth Session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention]