24-27 March 2020 virtual
Seventeenth Meeting of the Adaptation Committee (AC17)

The seventeenth meeting of the Adaptation Committee (AC17) took place as a virtual event, as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic. 

Agenda items include promoting overarching coherence, including through:

  • Collaboration with other adaptation‐related institutional arrangements under the Convention;
  • Advice to the Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate
    change; and 
  • Mainstreaming a gender perspective into the work of the Adaptation Committee.

The meeting will also address mandates from the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement, including for:

  • Global Goal on Adaptation;
  • Adaptation Communications: Draft supplementary guidance for voluntary use by Parties in communicating adaptation information;
  • Methodologies for assessing adaptation needs;
  • Modalities for recognizing the adaptation efforts of developing country Parties;
  • Methodologies for reviewing the adequacy and efectiveness of adaptation and support; and
  • Information collection and preparation for the Global Stocktake.

dates: 24-27 March 2020
location: virtual
www: https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/bodies/constituted-bodies/adaptation-committee-ac/workshops-meetings/seventeenth-meeting-of-the-adaptation-committee-ac17

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