Background
The Conference of the Parties (COP) at its twenty-sixth session requested the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI), at its sixtieth session (June 2024), to initiate the assessment of progress in the process to formulate and implement national adaptation plans (NAPs), and to make recommendations on this matter for consideration and adoption by COP 29 (November 2024). It decided on the steps and actions for the SBI to initiate the assessment, which include the call for submissions on the matter from Parties and relevant organizations by 1 February 2024, the preparation by the secretariat of a synthesis report on the matter, the organization by the LEG, in collaboration with the AC and with the support of the secretariat, of a meeting of Party experts to consider that synthesis report and the preparation of a report on that meeting (this meeting), and invited Parties and relevant organizations to contribute to the assessment in a timely manner.
Agenda
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DAY 1: 23 APRIL 2024
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14:00 – 15:30
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Session I: Opening and expected outcomes of the meeting
- Objectives and plan for the expert meeting
- Background on mandate and previous assessments
- Outputs and expectations from the meeting
- Synthesis report by the secretariat (Presentation, Report (provisional draft))
Session II: Achievement of the objectives of the process to formulate and implement NAPs
- Objective 1: What has been the progress in the achievement of the first objective of the process to formulate and implement NAPs - (a) To reduce vulnerability to the impacts of climate change, by building adaptive capacity and resilience
- What are examples of building adaptive capacity and resilience?
- What are examples that are convincing that show key vulnerabilities are being addressed?
- What has been the experience, emerging best practices and lessons learned?
- What are the challenges, gaps and needs in making progress?
(can consider relevant sectors/systems addressed in NAPs or the thematic targets of the global goal on adaptation, as appropriate, and different levels/scope (national, subnational, and sectoral levels; specific groups – e.g. vulnerable communities and groups))
Inputs provided by Bangladesh and Kenya to initiate discussion.
- Objective 2: What has been the progress in the achievement of the second objective of the process to formulate and implement NAPs: (b) To facilitate the integration of climate change adaptation, in a coherent manner, into relevant new and existing policies, programmes and activities, in particular development planning processes and strategies, within all relevant sectors and at different levels, as appropriate
- What are examples of how countries have integrated adaptation in development planning?
- What has been the experience, emerging best practices and lessons learned?
- What are the challenges, gaps and needs in making progress?
(Can consider, inter alia, the following enabling factors: Leadership and coordination mechanisms; institutional arrangements; regulatory frameworks; national, sectoral and subnational development plans and strategies containing or aimed at implementing adaptation actions)
Inputs provided by Bangladesh and Kenya to initiate discussion.
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DAY 2: 24 APRIL 2024
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11:00 – 12:30
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Session III: Support provided and received
- Provision of financial and technical support for adaptation (mandates, guidance, resourcing, etc.)
- How have mandates for provision of support for adaptation been addressed within the intergovernmental architecture?
- How adequate and effective has support provided for adaptation through NAPs been to meet challenges brought on by adverse effects of climate change?
- How adequate and effective has technical support for adaptation through the NAPs been to address the technical gaps and needs related to NAPs?
Inputs provided by Malawi and GCF to initiate discussion.
- Access to financial and technical support by developing countries for adaptation
- How successfully have developing countries accessed financial support provided for adaptation and NAPs in particular under the UNFCCC funds and from sources other than UNFCCC funds?
- How successfully have developing countries accessed technical support (including technology transfer and capacity building) provided for adaptation and NAPs
Inputs provided by UNDP to initiate discussion.
- Science, framing knowledge and methodologies for adaptation
- How have countries taken advantage of technical guidance and opportunities provided by the intergovernmental process related to the NAP process? (For example the elements in the Cancun Adaptation Framework, NAP and related guidance/supplements)
- What are examples of projects being scaled up, replicated to build on best practices and lessons learned?
- How much has scientific results been used, for example through citations of IPCC and other literature and also development of climate change scenarios and their use in the assessments of the adaptation plan?
- Are there any innovative scientific concepts used in the planning, eg. Use of pathways?
- What are emerging best practices, key lessons learned, challenges and obstacles based on experience to date?
Inputs provided by WMO and Adaptation Fund to initiate discussion.
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12:30 – 14:00
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BREAK
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14:00 – 15:30
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Session IV: Consideration of the guiding principles
- Guiding principles (5/CP.17, para. 3)
- What has been the experience, emerging best practices and lessons learned?
- With regard to the guiding principles listed below:
- Continuous process at the national level with iterative updates and outputs
- Country-owned, country-driven
- Not prescriptive, but flexible and based on country needs
- Building on and not duplicating existing adaptation efforts
- Participatory and transparent
- Enhancing coherence of adaptation and development
- Considering vulnerable groups, communities and ecosystems
- Guided by best available science
- Taking traditional and indigenous knowledge into consideration
- Gender sensitive/gender-responsive
- What are the challenges, gaps and needs in making progress?
Inputs provided by Eswatini and Philippines to initiate discussion.
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DAY 3: 25 APRIL 2024
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11:00 – 12:30
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Session V: Experience, best practices and lessons learned, gaps and needs
- What are the challenges, gaps and needs in terms of formulating and implementing the NAP?
- What has been the experience, best practices and lessons learned?
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12:30 – 14:00
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BREAK
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14:00 – 15:30
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Session VI: Concluding session
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