The Adaptation Committee (AC), as per its workplan for 2022–2024, held its first annual dialogue with adaptation-related constituted bodies to discuss ways of further strengthening coherence and collaboration in addressing adaptation within the margins of SB56.

The annual dialogue offers a space for constituted bodies to exchange information on adaptation-related areas of common interest, and to identify potential areas of coordination, synergy and collaboration to bolster the work on adaptation under the UNFCCC.

The theme for the first annual dialogue in 2022 was “Support for adaptation (capacity-building, finance, technology), with a focus on addressing gaps and needs related to the formulation and implementation of NAPs”.

The first Dialogue was attended by representatives of the Adaptation Committee, the Least Developed Countries Expert Group, the Consultative Group of Experts, the Executive Committee of the Warsaw Mechanism on Loss and Damage, the Facilitative Working Group of the LCIPP, the Paris Committee on Capacity Building, the Standing Committee on Finance, and the Technology Executive Committee/Technology Mechanism.

A short and informal summary report on the Dialogue will be discussed at AC 22 from 6-9 September 2022.

Approach:

Discussions built upon the mandated consideration by the AC and the LEG of gaps and needs related to the process to formulate and implement NAPs and ways to address them (decisions 8/CP.24, 7/CP.25), and associated work. The compilation of gaps and needs for NAPs is primarily led by the LEG and is available at https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/LEG-brief_NAP-gaps-and-needs-Mar2021.pdf. The AC recently published a technical paper on capacity gaps in accessing adaptation funding, available at https://unfccc.int/documents/302884. Both these and any latest findings were to initiate discussion at the dialogue.

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