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Five-year work programme on the
scientific, technical and
socio-economic aspects of impacts,
vulnerability and adaptation to climate
change
New Zealand presentation at SBSTA22
21 May 2005
Broad
objective?
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• Improve understanding of the challenges
faced in adapting to climate change and
improve understanding of what countries
and communities are already doing in
their response to the impacts of climate
change
Scope?
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• Importance of a broad scope that
encompasses all elements of paragraph 23 of
decision 1/CP10
• Should be some clear aims and intermediate
outputs
• Should add value to work already going on
Structure?
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• Structure around broad themes that are
reflected throughout the work programme e.g.
– Benefits of early decision-making and proactive
adaptation
– Links and synergies of adaptation with other
development-related decisions
– Options to separate natural from human-induced
climatic changes within an adaptation and
development context
Major
milestones?
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SBSTA should aim to:
• agree conclusions relating to governance
arrangements that facilitate adaptation
• agree on approaches that help Parties define national
critical limits for climate change and climate change
impacts
• request Parties to include in their next national
communications views on global, regional and national
critical thresholds and vulnerabilities to climate change
impacts, and extent of or limits to adaptive capacity
Review
and
development?
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• Needs and interests will evolve
• Within broad scope, decide detailed priorities
for sessions on a shorter time frames of one
to two years
• Build in a mid-programme review to ensure on
track to meet the needs and aims identified by
Parties