Impacts of climate change include slow onset events and extreme weather events, which may both result in loss and damage.
Slow onset events, as initially introduced by the Cancun Agreement (COP16), refer to the risks and impacts associated with: increasing temperatures; desertification; loss of biodiversity; land and forest degradation; glacial retreat and related impacts; ocean acidification; sea level rise; and salinization.
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Strategic workstream (a) of the five-year rolling workplan of the Executive Committee is to enhance cooperation and facilitation in relation to slow onset events, including desertification, glacial retreat and related impacts, land and forest degradation, loss of biodiversity, ocean acidification, increasing temperatures and sea-level rise (decision 1/CP.16).
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For the activities of the slow onset events workstream as contained in the current rolling workplan of the Executive Committee, see here. The full version can be found in annex to the report of the 2017 Executive Committee.
The expert group on slow onset events (SOEs Expert Group) helps execute the work of the Executive Committee in guiding the implementation of the Warsaw International Mechanism, as appropriate, in an advisory role.
For organizations working on slow onset events and the scope of their current efforts, see >>>
To respond to the growing need for enhancing understanding of the adverse effects of slow onset events on vulnerable populations and relevant approaches for addressing them, the Executive Committee has mobilized the science community to publish a special issue under the Elsevier journal Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. It is expected in mid-2021.
How to get involved?
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In order to further develop and strengthen the database of organizations working on slow onset events and the scope of their current efforts, the Executive Committee invites relevant organizations to complete this template>>
- To add a new organization to the database; or
- To submit new, additional, updated information to an organization already included in the database.
Please submit completed templates to loss-damage(at)unfccc.int.
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