Strategic workstream (a) of the current five-year workplan of the Warsaw International Mechanism Executive Committee (WIM ExCom) focuses on enhancing cooperation and facilitation in relation to slow onset events.
The impacts of climate change include slow onset events and extreme weather events, which may both result in loss and damage. Slow onset events, as initially introduced by the Cancun Agreement (COP16), refer to the risks and impacts associated with increasing temperatures, desertification, loss of biodiversity, land and forest degradation, glacial retreat and related impacts, ocean acidification, sea level rise, and salinization.
Work facilitated by the WIM ExCom on this workstream
The WIM ExCom has been conducting a number of activities since 2015, including under strategic workstream (a) of its five-year rolling workplan, to improve the state of knowledge to understand and the capacity to address slow onset events and their impacts.
The Expert Group on Slow onset events helps execute the work of the WIM ExCom in guiding the implementation of the Warsaw International Mechanism in an advisory role.