NEGOTIATIONS
FOCUS
PROCESS
KEY STEPS
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Research
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Promoting research on adaptation options and the development and diffusion of
technologies, know-how, and practices for adaptation, particularly addressing identified
adaptation priorities and building on lessons learned from current adaptation projects and
strategies
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A sure research and knowledge base from systematic observation and forecasting services is essential
to monitor climate, detect and attribute climate change, improve the understanding of the dynamics of
the climate system and its natural variability, provide input for climate models, asess impacts and
vulnerability, and thus plan adaptation options. Further information on existing secretariat work on
research is available under Methods & Science -
Research.
Activities and deliverables under the second phase (2008-2010) include:
- The SBSTA encouraged greater consideration of adaptation in future dialogues on research and
noted the research needs identified in document FCCC/SBSTA/2007/12
and invited bodies and programmes involved in this type of research to inform the SBSTA of activities
, including during the research dialogue to take place at its thirtieth (June 2009) and thirty-second
session (June 2010)
- The SBSTA encouraged relevant institutions to further research on vulnerability mapping for
analysis of the impacts associated with climate change in key areas, including terrestrial and marine
ecosystems, in the light of economic, environmental and social indicators
Activities and deliverables under the first phase (up to June 2008) included:
- Synthesis report of ongoing and planned adaptation research and adaptation research needs
Activities are undertaken under, and in coordination with, the work of the SBSTA on research and
systematic observation. Since 2002, the SBSTA has regularly considered priority areas of
research and questions for the scientific community that are relevant to the Convention.
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Work in the area of research can contribute to efforts by Parties and organizations to:
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Analyse opportunities and ways to promote research on adaptive capacities and adaptation practices
that increase resilience.
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Details of activities and deliverables under the first phase
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Synthesis report
The secretariat has been mandated to prepare, before its twenty-seventh session, a
synthesis
report (FCCC/SBSTA/2007/12)
on ongoing and planned adaptation research, as well as the adaptation research needs
identified in the submissions from Parties and relevant organizations included in the
following documents, and to take this into account in the consideration of further
activities.
These submissions, and the synthesis by the secretariat of the information
contained therein, were mandated by SBSTA in 2005 to help ensure
that research needs relating to the Convention are regularly considered, in order to
inform Parties about ongoing and planned activities of regional and international climate
change research programmes, and to communicate Parties’ views on research needs and
priorities to the scientific community.
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Progress on implementation
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Leaflet
on research
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