The Adaptation Committee is an advisory body established under the UNFCCC to promote adaptation and support parties in implementing adaptation. It provides technical support and guidance to parties, promotes national adaptation planning, supports monitoring and evaluation of adaptation actions, and strengthens engagement and information sharing to improve adaptation support. The Adaptation Committee collaborates with UN agencies, bodies under the UNFCCC, and other organizations. It develops thematic reports, hosts adaptation forums, and makes recommendations to the COP. Upcoming work includes analyses on adaptation finance, national adaptation planning processes, economic diversification for adaptation, and a second flexible workplan.

1. The work of the UNFCCC Adaptation
Committee
OECD Joint DAC-EPOC Task Team on Climate Change and Development Co-operation
Presentation by Juan Hoffmaister
Co-Chair of the Adaptation Committee

2. What is the Adaptation Committee?
Adaptation
Committee
Advice
Engagement
Recommendations
Technical Support
Ensuring
coherence &
collaboration
Promoting
synergy &
strengthening
engagement
Providing
guidance on
means to
incentivize
implementation
Considering
information by
Parties on
monitoring and
review
Sharing of
information,
knowledge &
experience
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The Adaptation Committee is the overall
advisory body on adaptation under the
Convention established in Cancun at COP
16 in 2010

3. What does the Adaptation Committee do?
• Collaborate with Convention bodies, UN agencies & regional centres
e.g. Technical advice to ADP, GCE, L&D ExCom, TEC
• Promote national adaptation planning
e.g. NAP Task force
• Support Monitoring & Evaluation
Adaptation Action
Technical support and
guidance to Parties
• Collaborate with Convention bodies, UN agencies & regional centres
e.g. Technical advice to AFB, GCF, GEF, NWP, SCF, TEC
• Strengthen engagement to improve support for adaptation
e.g. Ad-hoc group on technical support
Means of Implementation
(finance, technology & capacity building)
Technical support and
guidance to Parties
• Thematic reports
Adaptation under the Convention (2013),
National Adaptation Planning (Nov 2014)
• Adaptation Forum
Awareness-raising,
outreach and sharing of
information
Workstreams
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C o h e r e n c e
Mapping – Reducing duplication – Addressing gaps – Promoting synergies
Recommendations and guidance to COP

4. Specific AC activities of relevance to work of OECD
• COP 18 in 2012 adopted the Adaptation Committee’s 3-year work plan
• Work includes a wide variety of activities in the areas of:
• Coherence and collaboration on adaptation-related issues under and
outside the Convention (e.g. engagement with all bodies of the
Convention)
• Strengthening the role of relevant UN agencies, regional centres and
networks in supporting adaptation (e.g. analysis of support and review
of modalities)
• National adaptation planning, including the National Adaptation Plan
(NAP) process and work with key stakeholders (e.g collaboration with
bilateral and multilateral organizations)
• Synthesizing, sharing and disseminating relevant information and
knowledge (e.g. through technical meetings, adaptation fora and
regular reports)
• Thematic work on institutional arrangements (e.g. 2014 thematic report)

5. Some work under development before COP21
• The Adaptation Committee presents its report to COP every year through the
Subsidiary Bodies
• This year the report is likely to include
• Analysis on Means of implementation for adaptation, in particular
finance
• Analysis on National adaptation planning, including the National
Adaptation Plan (NAP) process
• Analysis on economic and livelihood diversification for adaptation
• Update on implementation of the overall work of the Committee
• Information on coherence and collaboration between the AC and other
constituted bodies under the Convention and with other organizations
• The second workplan of the Committee, aiming to be flexible to
accommodate needs arising from Paris agreement