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Expert groups of the Executive Committee for Loss and Damage
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The COP empowered the Executive Committee to establish expert groups, subcommittees, panels, thematic
advisory groups and task-focused ad hoc working groups to help execute work of the Executive
Committee in guiding the implementation of the Warsaw International Mechanism, as appropriate, in
an advisory role, and report to the Executive Committee (see Decision
2/CP.20, paragraph 8).
This page provides an overview of the expert groups established to date.
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Task Force on Displacement
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What is the objective?
The Task Force on Displacement was established at Excom 4, in September 2016, to develop
recommendations for integrated approaches to avert, minimize and address displacement related to the
adverse impacts of climate change.
What is the relevant mandate?
See Decision
1/CP.21, paragraph 49, and the  workplan of the task force
For further information,
click here.
At Excom 7 (March 2018), the Executive Committee established the following three expert groups
under these Terms of Reference (317 kB) . At the same meeting, the
Executive Committee also established the Roster of Experts of the Warsaw International Mechanism to
identify experts who would be engaged in different activities mandated to the expert groups as per the
five-year
workplan of the Excom. Such experts will include, inter alia, representatives from: UNFCCC
NGO constituency groups, representatives from intergovernmental organizations, that have been admitted
by the COP to the UNFCCC process; nationally- or regionally-based research institutions and
universities; multilateral financial institutions; bilateral channels and/or the private sector; and
any other institution agreed for inclusion by the Excom.
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Technical Expert Group on comprehensive risk management approaches
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What is the objective?
The Technical Expert Group was established to enhance knowledge and understanding of comprehensive
risk management approaches, including issues related to finance, data, technology, regulatory
environments and capacity-building.
What is the relevant mandate?
See strategic workstream (c) of the five-year
workplan of the Executive Committee.
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Expert Group on non-economic losses
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What is the objective?
The Expert Group was established to develop inputs and recommendations to enhance data on and
knowledge of reducing the risks of and addressing non-economic losses (NELs), including how to
factor these in the planning and elaboration of measures to address loss and damage associated with
the adverse effects of climate change.
What is the relevant mandate?
See strategic workstream (b) of the five-year
workplan of the Executive Committee.
See the first expert group on NELs, established under the initial two-year workplan of the
Executive Committee. For further information on the work of the first expert group, click
here.
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Technical Expert Panel/Group on slow onset events
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What is the objective?
The Technical Expert Panel/Group was established to improve the knowledge base on and
develop recommendations for approaches to addressing slow onset events (SOEs), with a view to
converting this knowledge base into products that support efforts at the regional and national
levels.
What is the relevant mandate?
See strategic workstream (a) of the five-year
workplan of the Executive Committee.
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