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Outcomes of the 17th Meeting of the Adaptation Committee
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The Adaptation Committee Held its 17th Meeting from 24-27 March 2020.
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The Adaptation Committee Held Its 17th Meeting from 24-27 March 2020.
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The
Adaptation Committee
held its
17th meeting
(AC17) between 24-27 March 2020. The Covid–19 global pandemic warranted
that the AC held its first ever virtual
meeting, thereby showing
its determination to continue delivering timely and high-quality products in
the face of the pandemic.
Yousef Nassef, the
director of the UNFCCC Adaptation Division, in his concluding remarks, said "the
Covid-19 challenge is giving us the opportunity to rethink our perception of a
lot of things including vulnerability, early action, rapid response and what
timescales mean when confronted with a crisis. I’m hopeful that the AC will
itself be an engine for the world to understand these lessons even after the
crisis ends"
The Adaptation Committee elected Cecilia da
Silva Bernardo from Angola and Alessandra Sgobbi from Italy as the new Co-Chairs. Pending global developments in the Covid-19
pandemic, the AC agreed 25 - 28 August as tentative dates for its 18th
meeting
Other key issues discussed at the virtual
meeting were:
How to most
effectively recognize the adaptation efforts of developing countries through
the lens of its synthesis paper on
How developingcountries are addressing hazards
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Considering approaches
to reviewing the overall progress made in achieving the
global goal onadaptation
of enhancing adaptive capacity,
strengthening resilience, and reducing vulnerability to climate change.
Reviewing
an initial draftoutline for supplementary guidance for voluntary use
by governments as they prepare their adaptation communication and
discussing how to ensure that this guidance does not create an additional
burden on developing countries.
Finalizing the
development—in partnership with the Least Developed Countries Expert
Group (LEG), partner organizations of the
Nairobiwork programme
, and other stakeholders—of an
inventory ofmethodologies
for assessing adaptation needs
related to action, finance, capacity-building, technological support and other
areas. Members brainstormed ways to ensure the inventory is user-friendly,
accessible, and tailored to the needs of the practitioners who will use it on
the ground.
Launching a
discussion on the
synthesisreport
the AC will prepare as an input into
the global stocktake - a periodical assessment of progress towards
achieving the purpose of the Paris Agreement and its long-term
goals.
Members also
discussed the AC’s
drafttechnical paper on data for adaptation
and reflected on how the paper can highlight opportunities for
international cooperation to improve data availability, use and quality
This article was adapted from one originally published in the
UNFCCC Newsroom
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Article Date:
4/29/2020
Created at 4/24/2020 3:54 PM by Francis Opolot
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