ADP informal plenary
The meeting started with specific briefings on the 2013-2015 Review and on the Forum on Response Measures, provided by the SBSTA Chair, Richard Muyungi, and by one of the Co-facilitators of the expert structured dialogue, Andreas Fischlin. Parties then shared reflections on progress made and areas requiring further work under the two ADP workstreams.
On workstream 1, Parties commented that a new agreement should be applicable to all, should be based on science and equity and with sensitivity to national circumstances, and that mitigation, adaptation and means of implementation should be integral to the new agreement. Another area of comment included the need for an international, common rules-based system, as well as a further consultative process or review of commitments.
Among the areas identified as requiring further work were: the timing of the initial pledges/commitments; the framing, role and concrete elements of adaptation in the new agreement; and linkages between existing institutions and the new agreement.
Further points raised were that progress on workstream 2 should be a precondition to advancing on the 2015 agreement, and that existing mechanisms like the Green Climate Fund need to be operationalized with urgency to ensure enhanced action and success in Warsaw.
On workstream 2, areas of comment by Parties included: recognition of the interlinkage between workstreams 1 and 2, with workstream 2 being key to building the trust necessary in workstream 1; and recognition of the equal importance of, and need for balance between mitigation and adaptation.
Areas seen as requiring further work include: addressing barriers to enhanced action and ambition; securing financing for enhanced action; and a possible high-level ministerial event or round table to be held during COP 19 in Warsaw in November.
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ADP Co-Chairs' fifth informal meeting
At the ADP's fifth informal meeting on organizing the future work of the group, the Co-Chairs tabled a revised textual proposal based on the comments and suggestions provided by Parties at the previous meeting. One area commented on by Parties was the balance of approaches between the technical papers on mitigation and adaptation. Another area of comment was assurance that movement to a more focused and formal mode of work would not preclude continuing work in round tables and workshops in parallel. A final informal ADP meeting will be held and a document will be produced at the closing plenary on 13 June.
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