The GST-TA will focus on taking stock of the implementation of the Paris Agreement to assess collective progress towards achieving the purpose and long-term goals of the Paris Agreement, as well as opportunities for enhanced action and support, including international cooperation for climate action.

Depending on when the when IPCC reports become available, the GST-TA could run in-sessionally over two or three sessions of the SBs. In the case of GST1, the sixth Assessment Report of the IPCC will be available in stages from 2021 to 2022. To ensure that the inputs of the GST are considered as they become available, the GST-TA will start at the SB 56 (Summer 2022) and conclude at SB 58 (Summer 2023).  GST-TAs will overlap with the GST-ICP permitting an interaction between the two components as may be needed. For example, if needed, the GST-ICP could respond to requests for additional information by the SBSTA-SBI Joint Contact Group on this matter to be held as part of the GST-TA.

In addition to the Joint Contact Group, the GST-TA component will include a technical dialogue that will hold balanced, holistic and comprehensive discussions on the themes, taking into account equity considerations and the best available science. The dialogue will be open, inclusive, transparent and facilitative and will allow to engage with constituted bodies and forums and other institutional arrangements under or serving the Paris Agreement and/or Convention, as well as experts.

The technical dialogue will be facilitated by a pair of co-facilitators (kindly see the bottom of this page), each from a developed and a developing country, who will prepare summary reports on the outputs of the dialogue for each thematic area, taking into account equity and best available science, as well as an overarching factual synthesis of the summary reports in a cross-cutting manner.

In the lead up to the GST-TA, information on the organization of work will be made available here.