This report covers the work of the Executive Committee of the Warsaw
International Mechanism for Loss and Damage associated with Climate Change Impacts
between October 2016 and August 2017. It contains information on organizational and
procedural matters, including on meetings and events held and the substructures of the
Executive Committee. The report highlights progress made in the operationalization of the
relevant mandates arising from decision 1/CP.21 and in the implementation by the
Executive Committee of its initial two-year workplan, including in the areas of:
collaboration and coherence; comprehensive risk management approaches; climate risk
analysis; slow onset events; ways forward regarding technical support; and the
development of the five-year rolling workplan. The report also contains a summary of the
proceedings of the 1st meeting of the task force on displacement and its workplan, as well
an overview of information on the systems and/or processes currently in place in
developing countries for conducting and coordinating analyses of climate risk and loss and
damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change. The addendum to this
document, to be published in due course, will focus on the deliberations of the Executive
Committee at its 6th meeting, to be held from 11 to 13 October 2017.