Nairobi Work Programme

Your location: Home > > Adaptation > Nairobi Work Programme

Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change (NWP)
- Understanding vulnerability, fostering adaptation

The Nairobi work programme (NWP) is undertaken under the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) of the UNFCCC. Its objective is to assist all Parties, in particular developing countries, including the least developed countries and small island developing States to:

improve their understanding and assessment of impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change; and
make informed decisions on practical adaptation actions and measures to respond to climate change on a sound scientific, technical and socio-economic basis, taking into account current and future climate change and variability.

The NWP is implemented by Parties, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, the private sector, communities and other stakeholders. The SBSTA encourages active engagement of adaptation stakeholders in the implementation of the NWP under mandated programme activities and work areas. The NWP disseminates knowledge and information on adaptation, and highlights the work of partners as widely as possible through a variety of knowledge products and publications. Organizations, institutions and private sector companies at all levels and in a wide range of sectors can become engaged with the programme by becoming a partner and making an Action Pledge. Further information about how to join the NWP can be found here. Further information about the NWP can be found under the following links:

Negotiations and Decisions	Updates on NWP negotiations under the SBSTA
Programme Activities and Work Areas	Activities undertaken and their associated outputs under the nine work areas
Partners, Action Pledges and Experts database	A searchable database containing information about partner organizations, their adaptation activities and/or actions pledged under the NWP and nominated adaptation experts
Calls for Action	Information on Calls for Action to meet the objective of the work programme under its respective work areas
Workshops and Meetings	Detailed information on workshops and meetings mandated under the programme
Knowledge Resources and Publications	A compendium on methods and tools developed by the UNFCCC secretariat; A database on ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation; An evolving inventory of adaptation knowledge platforms and networks; Publications produced under the programme; and Documents mandated by the SBSTA under the work programme

NWP Ecosystem-Based Adaptation Calendar Healthy ecosystems, adapting to climate change

February features a comprehensive watershed management system for hydro electric power and agricultural resilience in Rwanda. An electronic version of the 2012 calendar is available, please pdf-icon

click here (2051 kB) to download it. Copies of the calendar can be obtained by contacting nwp@unfccc.int.

Comments/suggestions?

If you have comments and/or suggestions relating to any aspect of the NWP including our webpages and programme implementation, please email nwp@unfccc.int

NEW

Conclusions adopted at SBSTA 35 and pdf-icon decision adopted by the COP at its seventeenth session.

Water and climate change impacts and adaptation strategies. Technical paper.

pdf-icon Summary note of the survey of national focal points to identify priority needs for the dissemination of products related to impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change under the Nairobi work programme (144 kB)

Ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation: compilation of information. Note by the secretariat.

Publication: pdf-icon Assessing the costs and benefits of adaptation options. An overview of approaches (6066 kB)

Become a NWP Partner

Contribute to the implementation and work of the Nairobi work programme