NEGOTIATIONS
FOCUS
PROCESS
KEY STEPS
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Adaptation Committee
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As part of the Cancun Adaptation
Framework, Parties established the Adaptation Committee to promote the implementation of
enhanced action on adaptation in a coherent manner under the Convention, inter alia, through the
following functions:
- Providing technical support and guidance to the Parties;
- Sharing of relevant information, knowledge, experience and good practices;
- Promoting synergy and strengthening engagement with national, regional and international
organizations, centres and networks;
- Providing information and recommendations, drawing on adaptation good practices, for
consideration by the COP when providing guidance on means to incentivize the implementation of
adaptation actions, including finance, technology and capacity-building;
- Considering information communicated by Parties on their monitoring and review of adaptation
actions, support provided and received.
New: The fifth meeting
of the Adaptation Committee took place in Bonn, Germany, from 5 to 7 March 2014.
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The Adaptation Committee comprises 16 members including representatives from the five UN
regional groups, SIDS, LDC, Non-Annex I and Annex I Parties, who shall serve in their personal
capacity
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A full set of rules of procedure, drawing upon the provisions decided by COP 17, was approved
at COP 18. The AC further elaborated on these, also taking into account a decision by COP
19 to replace the positions of Chair and Vice-Chair by the positions of Co-Chairs. At its 5th
meeting the AC agreed on a set of revised rules of procedure.
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Linkages to adaptation related workstreams, bodies and institutions under the Convention, as
well as relevant external institutions, organizations, frameworks, networks and centres
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Please address any questions and suggestions for support to the work of the Adaptation
Committee to AC@unfccc.int
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News
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- The Adaptation Committee held its first Adaptation
Forum on 19 November 2013 in Warsaw, Poland. The forum aims at raising awareness
and profile of adaptation globally by highlighting ideas on what a resilient future should be, as
voiced at the Forum by a panel of leaders and visionaries, as well as Adaptation Committee members
and the audience. A short highlights video will be complemented by a comprehensive documentary.
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The first thematic report by the Adaptation Committee on the State of Adaptation under the
Convention has been published
All countries face the challenge of adapting to
the inevitable effects of climate change. Wider and faster action and international cooperation on
adaptation is urgently required to enable and support the implementation of adaptation actions
aimed at reducing vulnerability and building resilience around the world. The UNFCCC Adaptation
Committee has launched a new report, which is designed to increase awareness of the
Convention’s evolving adaptation agenda and to encourage enhanced contributions to the global
effort of responding to the adaptation challenge. The Adaptation Committee seeks to promote
enhanced adaptation action both within and outside of the UNFCCC.
Download the report The
State of Adaptation under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change
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The Adaptation Exchange
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