Publication date: December 2023 

Abstract

The AC and the LEG, from 2020 to 2023 and in collaboration with the SCF, compiled existing methodologies, based on desk top studies and on the submissions received in response to decision 11/CMA.1, para. 36, and established a joint working group to advise the three bodies on the further work regarding their mandate.

This paper comprises the compilation of methodologies as of July 2023 alongside lessons learned, gaps and challenges identified through their application at different levels. It reflects the considerations by the AC, the LEG and the SCF, along with their joint working group, on the purpose, principles and scope of the review and on its overall context and potential sources of information. It presents additional considerations and proposals for conducting the global review as expressed by Parties and other stakeholders under the technical dialogues of the global stocktake, the work programme on the global goal on adaptation and in other recent discussions. Finally, it outlines opportunities in drawing on and refining the existing methodologies and in conducting additional work with a view to informing and shaping the global review over time.

Findings of their work to date in response to the open mandate have been provided by the AC, the LEG and the SCF as an input to the third meeting of the technical dialogue under the global stocktake convened in June 2023.