FCCC/SB/2017/1

Report of the Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage associated with Climate Change Impacts.

This report covers the work of the Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage associated with Climate Change Impacts between October 2016 and August 2017. It contains information on organizational and procedural matters, including on meetings and events held and the substructures of the Executive Committee. The report highlights progress made in the operationalization of the relevant mandates arising from decision 1/CP.21 and in the implementation by the Executive Committee of its initial two-year workplan, including in the areas of: collaboration and coherence; comprehensive risk management approaches; climate risk analysis; slow onset events; ways forward regarding technical support; and the development of the five-year rolling workplan. The report also contains a summary of the proceedings of the 1st meeting of the task force on displacement and its workplan, as well an overview of information on the systems and/or processes currently in place in developing countries for conducting and coordinating analyses of climate risk and loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change. The addendum to this document, to be published in due course, will focus on the deliberations of the Executive Committee at its 6th meeting, to be held from 11 to 13 October 2017.

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UN Climate Change Conference - November 2017, SBI 47
Bangkok Climate Change Conference - April 2011, AWG-LCA 14
Nairobi Climate Change Conference - November 2006, AWG-KP 2
The Hague Climate Change Conference - November 2000, SBSTA 13-2
Lima Climate Change Conference - December 2014, CMP 10
Bonn Climate Change Conference - June 2015, SBSTA 42
Bonn Climate Change Conference - June 2015, ADP 2-9
Marrakech Climate Change Conference - November 2016, SBSTA 45

meeting papers

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United Nations Office at Geneva | Geneva (Switzerland) | 24/08/2017