At its fifty-sixth session, the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice will conduct a stocktake of the operational and institutional modalities of the Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change. The stocktake will assess the performance and effectiveness of the programme in addressing knowledge needs relevant to implementing the Paris Agreement. The stocktake will also identify ways of strengthening its operational and institutional modalities for scaling up adaptation action. To inform the stocktake, Parties, UNFCCC constituted bodies and Nairobi work programme partner organizations submitted their views on this matter. This report contains a synthesis of the views expressed in those submissions.