Opening

• Remarks by the SB Chairs
• Short presentation by the secretariat on the experts’ work in 2025
• Updates from experts: Water, Food, Health, Ecosystems, Infrastructure, Poverty and livelihoods, Cultural Heritage, Adaptation Cycle

Discussions on data and methodology feasibility assessments (3/CMA.6, para 17a-b)

• Balancing potential trade-offs between short-term feasibility (using existing data) and long-term impact (developing new methodologies and data collection systems)
• Possibility of integrating alternative data sources or proxy indicators to fill gaps in data collection
• Should we prioritize selecting indicators already with data and established methodologies or should we include those indicators to drive future data collection and methodology development?
• What are the potential trade-offs between short-term feasibility (using existing data) and long-term impact (developing new methodologies and data collection systems)?
• How can we ensure that countries are not discouraged from reporting due to lack of data, but rather see it as an opportunity to build capacity?
• How can we integrate alternative data sources or proxy indicators to fill gaps in data collection? (e.g., impact indicators to measure outcome indicators)

Panel discussions with experts on interlinkages across indicators with examples, where relevant, and associated challenges:

Presentation on interlinkages, presentation on disaggregated data, presentation on links between thematic and dimensional indicators

• cross-cutting indicators (social inclusion, Indigenous Peoples, human rights, gender equality, migrants, children and young people, and persons with disabilities);
• compound indicators;
• nested indicators;
• indicators that are relevant to multiple targets

Guiding questions for discussions:

• How should cross-cutting indicators be included in the final list?
• What are the key benefits of using compound and nested indicators? what gaps or challenges do they address?
• What determines when an indicator should be structured as a compound indicator with sub-indicators, rather than as a standalone or multi-target indicator? 
• What challenges arise in aligning indicators across thematic and dimensional targets, and how can they be addressed?

Discussion on

• What are some examples of indicators for enabling factors for the implementation of adaptation action, including means of implementation, that have been successfully utilized in other processes, and how could similar indicators be made applicable to the GGA?
• How do we ensure that global indicators reflect regional and national realities, while still providing a meaningful global assessment?
• Analysing gaps and exploring the need for new indicators

11:00 - 11:15

Plenary discussions

The next steps and suggestions on how experts can overcome the challenges faced by them