Submissions
The SBSTA invited Parties and relevant organizations to submit to the secretariat, by 23 February 2007, information on their relevant programmes, activities and views on the following issues:
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Experience with assessment and management of current and future climate-related risks and impacts, including those related to extreme events and in specific sectors
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Ability, gaps, needs, opportunities, barriers and constraints to predicting climate variability, impacts and extreme events across regions and hazards
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Contribution of traditional knowledge to understanding and managing climate-related risks
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Implications for sustainable development in relation to the issues above
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Promoting understanding of impacts of, and vulnerability to, climate change
Submissions were received from twelve Parties and Party groups (Argentina, Australia, India, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, United States of America and Uzbekistan as well as from Germany on behalf of the European Community and its Member States and AOSIS). Nine organizations also made submissions (FAO, ISDR, WMO, IFRC, OECD, CARE Canada, Practical Action, German Committee for Disaster Reduction and the Global Fire Monitoring Center). The submissions can be downloaded below.
FCCC/SBSTA/2007/MISC.4 and Add.1 and Add.2
Relevant programmes, activities and views on the issues relating to climate related risks and extreme events. Submissions from Parties
FCCC/SBSTA/2007/MISC.5
Relevant programmes, activities and views on the issues relating to climate related risks and extreme events. Submissions from relevant organizations.
Workshop
The SBSTA requested the secretariat, under the guidance of the Chair of the SBSTA, to organize, before its twenty-seventh session, a workshop with the participation of Parties, experts and relevant organizations and institutions on the issues, information and submissions referred to in the above submissions. It further requested the secretariat to prepare a report on the workshop to be made available to the SBSTA by its twenty-seventh session.
The workshop on climate related risks and extreme events took place in Cairo, Egypt from 18 to 20 June 2007. The agenda, presentations and results from the workshop are available on the Cairo workshop page.
The workshop report is contained in document FCCC/SBSTA/2007/7.
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