Abstract

This technical paper provides an initial exploration of opportunities and options for reducing vulnerability and mainstreaming climate change adaptation, including through the process to formulate and implement national adaptation plans as identified by Parties and non-Party stakeholders through their practical experiences. It is primarily based on discussions held at the technical expert meetings on adaptation, which took place on 24 and 25 May 2016 in Bonn, Germany, in conjunction with the forty-fourth sessions of the subsidiary bodies. 

The paper is intended to contribute to the understanding of how good practices and lessons learned can lay the foundation for the enhanced implementation of pre-2020 adaptation actions and beyond. It's objective is to provide an initial exploration of opportunities and options for reducing vulnerability to climate change impacts and mainstreaming adaptation. Here, opportunities and options represent lessons learned, best practices and emerging conclusions from practical experiences regarding what works and what does not work in the adaptation process. 

The paper seeks to highlight experiences that can lay the foundation for the effective implementation of pre-2020 adaptation actions and beyond. It also seeks to identify how best practices can be replicated and scaled up taking into account national circumstances and specific climate impacts. 

The paper also provides an overview of the presentations and discussions that took place at the TEMs, and incorporates other relevant sources of information, including key messages arising from knowledge and experiences to date, key findings to assist further work on adaptation, and the remaining gaps that should be further investigated with follow-up activities and reports.

Affiliated Organizations

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

UNFCCC stands for United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The Convention has near universal membership (198 Parties) and is the parent treaty of the 2015 Paris Agreement. The main aim of the Paris Agreement is to keep the global average temperature rise this century as close as possible to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. The UNFCCC is also the parent treaty of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.

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