FCCC/SBSTA/2009/INF.5

Progress made in implementing activities under the Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change. Note by the secretariat.

This report provides an overview of the progress made in implementing activities under the Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change since the thirtieth session of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA). The elements of the second phase of the Nairobi work programme were defined by the SBSTA at its twenty-eighth session. The report describes progress made under the different areas of work and how organizations, institutions, experts and the private sector have been engaged in the activities under the Nairobi work programme during this period. It also contains summary accounts of how the secretariat is disseminating outcomes to stakeholders, and highlights of activities relating to the work programme independently of activities carried out under the Convention. The report concludes with an overview of next steps envisaged to further the work of the Nairobi work programme in the near future.

Item 3 of the provisional agenda

Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), Thirty-first session, 7-18 December 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark

reports by the Secretariat

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