The Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), in response to the recommendations of the Adaptation Committee, invited Parties and partner organizations of the Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change to submit to the secretariat, by 20 August 2014, information on good practices in and lessons learned from national adaptation planning. The SBSTA requested the secretariat to compile the submissions referred to in paragraph 1 above into an information document, to be made available by SBSTA 41.
The SBSTA invited Parties and Nairobi work programme partner organizations, including regional centres and networks, to include information on the following, as appropriate, in their submissions referred to in paragraph 1 above: (a) Available and implemented tools and methods for adaptation planning processes addressing the four issues of ecosystems, human settlements, water resources and health; (b) Good practices and lessons learned in relation to adaptation planning processes, including on monitoring and evaluation, addressing the four issues of ecosystems, human settlements, water resources and health; (c) Good practices and lessons learned related to processes and structures for linking national and local adaptation planning. The secretariat has received 21 such submissions. In accordance with the procedure for miscellaneous documents, the three submissions from Parties and the ten submissions from intergovernmental organizations are attached and reproduced in the language in which they were received and without formal editing. In line with established practice, the eight submissions from non-governmental organizations have been posted on the UNFCCC website