The Bridging the Gap initiative held a side event in the first week of the negotiations.The side event explored the integration of land transport and climate policy and was attended by negotiators including Dr. Fernando Tudela, the principle negotiator on climate change in Mexico - a country where the transport sector features in the national strategy to reduce GHG emissions - who spoke at the event.Details of the side event, along with presentations delivered, can be accessed from http://www.transport2012.org/transport-climate-change-news/2010-06-06,se-bonn.htm.

A workshop to explore mitigation from the land transport sector in more depth was also organised by Bridging the Gap in parallel to the climate talks.This day long event hosted by the BMZ featured presentations and discussions relating to issues including the mitigation potential and technology needs of land transport in developing countries, the link between transport and development, financing and MRV.A summary of the workshop and all of the presentations delivered is available from http://www.transport2012.org/transport-climate-change-news/2010-06-11,btg-ws.htm.

The Bridging the Gap Initiative launched a proposal for a sectoral mechanism in the transport sector called REST (Reducing Emissions through Sustainable Transport) at both of these events. This proposal, which will soon be available on this website, is for a mechanism that comprises of both funding and crediting elements, which would provide financial support for capacity building and concrete projects in the transport sector whilst also contributing to enhanced information collection and reporting processes. At this stage it is a'living document' that will be updated and refined to incorporate comments received from international experts working in this field.

The fortnight of climate talks was the last that will be presided over by Yvo de Boer with Christiana Figueres (formerly a negotiator for Costa Rica) to take on the role of head of the UNFCCC for the next talks, which will take place in Bonn this August.She has been vocal of the need for Parties to be more ambitious and for the process to become fully transparent and inclusive to support Parties to reach a'strong outcome' for COP16.The negotiations that took place over the fortnight highlighted the need for such an approach, with transparency and equity emerging as two areas of concern expressed by both developed and developing country Parties.

The session resulted in the development of two draft conclusion documents for consideration of the Parties - one from the Chair of the AWG-KP (http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2010/awg12/eng/l04.pdf) and one from the Chair of the AWG-LCA (https://unfccc.int/files/meetings/ad_hoc_working_groups/lca/application/pdf/awg-lca_advance_draft_of_a_revised_text.pdf).

The Parties agreed on the conclusions reached by the Chair of the AWG-KP, despite a number of outstanding issues still needing to be discussed.In response to the gaps that remain the UNFCCC was requested to organise a workshop during the August sessions to discuss the possibility of enhancing the scale of emission reductions, and also to organise the production of a paper exploring legal options to help to ensure that there is not a gap between the first and second commitment periods of the KP.The need for doing so is highlighted by the fact that pledges made by developed country Parties currently amount to a reduction of emissions of between 12 and 19% on 1990 levels