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Objectives of the meeting

The second all-expert groups meeting aims to:

• Discuss needs and opportunities to enhance the collection and management of data and information related to averting, minimizing, and addressing loss and damage for countries to prepare Biennial Transparency Reports (BTRs) under the Paris Agreement Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF);
• Explore ways to synergize expertise available through the five expert groups, technical expert group and task force (thematic expert groups) of the WIM Executive Committee (WIM ExCom).

Overall approach

The meeting will be held in an open workshop style. It is open and inclusive to all experts and supporting members of the five thematic expert groups, and registered observer organizations for the 21^st meeting of WIM ExCom, to be held from 11 to 13 September at the same venue.

The discussions of the meeting will inform, inter alia, how WIM ExCom responds to the new mandate from the outcomes of the 1^st global stocktake – i.e. to prepare voluntary guidelines for enhancing the collection and management of data and information to inform the preparation of BTRs, building on the work of the thematic expert groups. In this regard, participants will be invited to share ideas to inform the voluntary guidelines.

The meeting will also:

• Explore synergies across expert groups and opportunities to improve ways of working to support joint activities in future;
• Provide space for joint planning to those thematic expert groups that already have joint activities in their current Plans of Action;
• Present the full spectrum and different types of products currently under development by the different expert groups.

Background information

WIM ExCom guides the implementation of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage associated with Climate Change Impacts through a rolling workplan across five thematic workstreams:

1. Enhanced cooperation and facilitation in relation to slow onset events;
2. Enhanced cooperation and facilitation in relation to non-economic losses;
3. Enhanced cooperation and facilitation in relation to comprehensive risk management approaches to address and build long-term resilience of countries, vulnerable populations and communities to loss and damage, including in relation to extreme and slow onset events, inter alia, through emergency preparedness, including early warning systems; measures to enhance recovery and rehabilitation and build back/forward better; social protection instruments, including social safety nets; and transformational approaches;
4. Enhanced cooperation and facilitation in relation to human mobility, including migration, displacement and planned relocation;
5. Enhanced cooperation and facilitation in relation to action and support, including finance, technology and capacity-building, to address loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change.

WIM ExCom is assisted by five thematic expert groups established under these strategic workstreams:

• Slow Onset Events Expert Group;
• Non-Economic Losses Expert Group;
• Technical Expert Group on Comprehensive Risk Management;
• Task Force on Displacement;
• Action and Support Expert Group.

These thematic expert groups co-create knowledge products and undertake activities jointly with WIM ExCom to promote integrated and coherent approaches to loss and damage associated with climate change impacts. 

Decision 1/CMA.5 (paragraph 133) on the outcome of the first global stocktake requests WIM ExCom to “prepare, building on the work of its expert groups, technical expert group and task force, voluntary guidelines for enhancing the collection and management of data and information to inform the preparation of biennial transparency reports.”

The specific types of information on climate change impacts and adaptation that Parties should include, where appropriate, in their BTRs are outlined in decision 18/ CMA.1. Specific types of information related to loss and damage as set out in modalities, procedures and guidelines (MPGs) contained in that decisions are as follows:

1. Observed and potential climate change impacts, including those related to extreme weather events and slow onset events, drawing upon the best available science;
2. Activities related to averting, minimizing and addressing loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change;
3. Institutional arrangements to facilitate the implementation of the activities referred to in paragraph (b) above.

Agenda